House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Tuesday that there will not be a vote in the House on extending the Obamacare subsidies, which expire at the end of the year.
Johnson said during the weekly GOP press conference that many centrist members in swing districts were pushing for a vote on the subsidies, and leadership “looked for a way to try to allow for that pressure release valve.”
“It just was not to be,” the speaker said. “We worked on it all the way through the weekend, in fact. And in the end, there was not — an agreement wasn’t made.”
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He added that everyone came to the table in “good faith” to discuss a path forward and that he appreciated their opinions. He expects the entire Republican conference to “join in unity” on voting for the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act on Wednesday.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
