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ACA, BIOSECURE left behind in funds talks
Enhanced ACA subsidies are nonetheless in limbo, even after President Biden issued a plea this weekend for Congress to increase them on this spherical of funds talks. Democrats pitched a one-year extension final week on the heels of a CBO report that projected that roughly 3.8 million folks would lose protection yearly with out the tax credit.
Democrats floated the thought of extending the subsidies via 2026 in a year-end deal, and paying for it with a budgetary maneuver that may theoretically lengthen funds cuts that haven’t really been carried out, as my colleague Rachel Cohrs Zhang reported. However by Monday, it seemed like Republicans would reject the extension slipping into the present funds deal.
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