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ACA, BIOSECURE left behind in budget talks
Enhanced ACA subsidies are still in limbo, even after President Biden issued a plea this weekend for Congress to extend them in this round of budget talks. Democrats pitched a one-year extension last week on the heels of a CBO report that projected that roughly 3.8 million people would lose coverage annually without the tax credits.
Democrats floated the idea of extending the subsidies through 2026 in a year-end deal, and paying for it with a budgetary maneuver that would theoretically extend budget cuts that haven’t actually been implemented, as my colleague Rachel Cohrs Zhang reported. But by Monday, it looked like Republicans would reject the extension slipping into the current budget deal.
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