Obamacare Subsidies Expire This Month: Republicans Shrug

Wednesday, December 03, 2025

Obamacare premiums are set to spike for tens of millions of Americans next month. Plenty of rank-and-file Republicans are happy to sit back and ride it out. Some vulnerable GOP lawmakers up for reelection are scrambling for a last-minute fix to renew the enhanced federal health care subsidies keeping costs down. But even if party leaders and President Donald Trump were to rally around a plan in the coming days -- and there's no sign of that happening -- many conservatives are likely to revolt.

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Democrats have vowed to hammer the GOP in the midterms if they allow the federal aid to expire, but many on the right expect the political fallout to be minimal, or even to backfire on Democrats. For other conservatives, any blowback will be worth it if it means they get to rein in a system the party has fundamentally opposed since its launch more than a decade ago.

"Democrats have to start acknowledging they blew it," Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson told reporters Tuesday. "Obamacare has been a huge disaster."

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The anxiety the GOP has about this has shocked them into a self-protective stupor.

The anxiety they will experience when their constituents are forced in poverty by medical bills will hopefully just push all of them fully over the ledge.

Maybe they are hoping that the Orange God will save them? Let's see if he's awake today...

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-03 10:27 AM | Reply

"But even if party leaders and President Donald Trump were to rally around a plan in the coming days -- and there's no sign of that happening -- many conservatives are likely to revolt."

Dementia Don said he will "look at it" in January, too late to do anything about it.

The Guardians of Pedophiles were never serious about doing anything about it at all and Fetterman and the rest of the sellouts fell for it.

via GIPHY

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-03 10:36 AM | Reply

-Fetterman and the rest of the sellouts fell for it

I suppose there are different ways to look at it but one version is that Trump won the showdown, the sellouts caved and ultimately Trump extended full funding for SNAP benefits anyway.

Perhaps the same thing happens with healthcare subsidies?

#3 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-03 10:47 AM | Reply

Its all about Trump Winning?

Is that your take on this, Eberly?

Maybe so.

It just shows what a little pisspot that fool is if true.

Playing Ego games with people's lives.

Ist also shows that the Republicans have no values but enrich the already Rich more.

But most people knew that long ago.

#4 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-03 10:58 AM | Reply

-Its all about Trump Winning?

It is to Trump. He gets them to cave and then he winds up doing it anyway.....after they cave.

#5 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-03 11:01 AM | Reply