9 House Republicans defy Mike Johnson, join Dems to advance Obamacare extension vote — A vote on extending Obamacare subsidies is expected in the House on Thursday

>Nine House Republicans bucked their party leaders on Wednesday evening to advance a vote on a Democrat-led healthcare bill.

>The nine GOP lawmakers’ support was key to pushing ahead on a vote to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies that expired at the end of last year. A vote on the bill itself is now expected Thursday afternoon.

>It’s a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who argued for weeks that the majority of House Republicans were opposed to extending the COVID-19 pandemic-era tax subsidies.

>But a significant number of GOP moderates were frustrated that their party leaders in the House and Senate had done little to avert a price hike for millions of Americans’ insurance premiums.

>Four of them signed onto a discharge petition filed by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., last month aimed at forcing a vote on extending the subsidies for three years over House GOP leaders’ objections.

>A discharge petition is a mechanism for getting legislation considered on the House floor even if the majority’s leadership is opposed to it.
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The bill is expected to pass the House on Thursday, but it is all but certain to die in the GOP-controlled Senate.

I’ve lost count, how many discharge petitions this is now? Five? Six? Mike “Avert My Eyes” Johnson has lost control over his caucus.

So Fox doesn’t get more clicks, here’s the list.

Mike Lawler, R-N.Y.; Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa.; Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa.; and Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa. — were among the nine to vote to advance Jeffries’ petition on Wednesday.

The other five lawmakers who voted to advance the petition were Reps. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y.; Maria Salazar, R-Fla., David Valadao, R-Calif., Max Miller, R-Ohio, and Tom Kean Jr., R-N.J.

Obamacare has survived more assassination attempts than a movie villain. At this point, it’s basically the Keith Richards of legislation.

Even if this weren’t just performative, isn’t it to late to matter for anyone that already needed to opt for a high deductible insurance plan since they’d be locked into it?

It might help with what premium they have, but they’ll still be on the hook for their huge deductibles … or am I mistaken?

Or, would this open a new enrollment period?

I assume that anyone who opted out of insurance entirely would be able to go ahead and sign up tho?

Nine GOP rebels just joined Dems to drag an Obamacare subsidy bill onto the floor Johnson’s own team cracked the whip on him and the whip snapped

Now join the chorus of impeachment and get this reckless, feckless orange piece of shit out of our government and safely behind bars where he and his cronies can’t harm more Americans.

9 reps goin rogue on johnson to save obamacare subsidies is the chaos i didnt know i needed in 2026

Wait, don’t all Republicans think the guy from Louisiana who doesn’t even have a bank account was the best person they had to run congress?