AFA of PA ACTION ALERT
January 8, 2026
Issue
Vote on Extension of Obamacare Subsidies Expected Tonight
Details
Taxpayer funding of Obamacare premiums ended on December 31, 2025. However, on December 17th four Republicans – Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) and Ryan Mackenzie (R-Pa.) – joined Democrats and signed a discharge petition to force a vote on extending the taxpayer funded premium subsidies. Those signatures allowed the discharge petition to reach the required 218 threshold to force the vote over GOP leadership’s objections.
Yesterday, the above four Republicans, and five more GOP US Representatives joined all the Democrats in passing the discharge petition by a vote of 221.205. A final vote on a three-year extension of the subsidies is expected tonight.
A little background: The Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare) is, as expected, the unaffordable care act. Up to this point not one Republican has voted for Obamacare. None on final passage in 2010; then Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan Act in March 2021 and in August 2022 the Inflation Reduction Act, again without a single Republican vote. The first bill created temporary subsidies to mask the ACA’s structural failures, and the second extended this bailout until December 2025. That brings us to the situation the US House now faces.
Additionally, let’s remember that Obamacare was crafted to bypass the longstanding bipartisan Hyde Amendment, which kept taxpayers out of the abortion business and, also, pays for so-called gender affirming care. The majority of American taxpayers do NOT want their hard-earned tax dollars going to kill babies or to mutilate gender-confused individuals.
Action Steps:
Contact your US Representative and tell him or her not to support extending the Obamacare subsidies.
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