Author Christopher Jacobs profileCongress returns to Washington this week, and with apologies to Yogi Berra, it’s déjà vu all over again. After spending much of the latter months of 2025 debating Democrat proposals to extend enhanced Covid-era Obamacare subsidies, the Republican-controlled Congress will spend the opening weeks of 2026 … debating Democrat proposals to extend enhanced Covid-era Obamacare subsidies.

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If this makes little sense to you, you’re not alone. But the House of Representatives faces an inevitable vote on an enhanced subsidy extension because, right before Christmas, four renegade Republicans — Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Rob Bresnahan, and Ryan Mackenzie of Pennsylvania and Mike Lawler of New York — signed a discharge petition effectively granting control of the House floor to Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and the rest of the Democrats. …

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