The House of Representatives voted 230 to 196 to extend expired Obamacare subsidies for three years.
17 defiant Republicans joined the Democrats and voted in favor of the three-year extension.
The bill will head to the Senate where it is likely dead on arrival.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has signaled he won’t even bring the bill to the floor for a vote.
U.S. House APPROVES 3-year extension of expired health care subsidies 230-196.
Goes now to the U.S. Senate. pic.twitter.com/USf39WoxU0
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 8, 2026
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries gloated after more than a dozen Republicans defiantly voted to extend Obamacare subsidies.
.@RepJeffries on House Voting to Pass ACA Subsidies 3-year extension bill: “The people’s house has just delivered a decisive victory for the American people … The cynics said it was impossible to do but where I’m from, difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week.” pic.twitter.com/wSHz2XSEt0
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 8, 2026
Last year the Senate rejected more than a dozen dueling healthcare plans as Obamacare’s enhanced premium tax credits expired at the end of 2025.
President Trump has repeatedly called for the ‘Affordable Care Act’ subsidies to be given to the consumers rather than the ‘fat cat’ insurance companies.
“I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over,” Trump recently said in a Truth Social post.
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