Health Care-apalooza

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Today’s notice: Inside a very big day in Congress. Republicans quietly grumble about Trump’s pardons. What Stephen Miller made last year. The DNC’s first 2026 Senate ads. And: Why Trump’s economic messaging problem is different from those of other presidents.

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Health care day on the Hill is here. And it’s going to be what anyone who has experienced health care policy in Congress would expect it to be.

Senate Democrats will get a vote on Affordable Care Act subsidy extensions they won in the shutdown negotiations. They will lose the vote.

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Senate Republicans, as we reported yesterday, have a bunch of plans kicking around. Some extend ACA subsidies, and some don’t, but Majority Leader John Thune has settled on the Cassidy-Crapo bill as the GOP’s legislation of choice to get a vote today, which does not extend those subsidies. (They will also lose this vote, bringing us back to…where we started.)