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Perry says ‘Let Covid-era Obamacare subsidies expire’ Steve Ulrich September 30, 2025 September 29, 2025
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In an opinion piece in Newsweek , Rep. Scott Perry (R-10) called for Congress to let the expanded Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that were passed during the COVID pandemic expire.
Originally designed to soften the economic blow under the American Rescue Plan (ARPA), legislators in the 119th Congress are now debating with the idea of making the subsidies permanent.
Perry says “that would be a colossal mistake.”
He blamed former President Joe Biden, saying “millions of higher-income Americans who never needed there taxpayer-funded subsidies suddenly qualified for government assis