U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez has joined with 12 other Republicans demanding that House leadership take steps to save health care subsidies .

In a carefully worded letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson , the letter effectively calls for lawmakers to immediately take up an extension of Affordable Care Act credits set to expire at the end of the year.

The lawmakers want the Republican leader to promise the matter gets taken up as soon as Democrats agree to end a federal government shutdown . The group praises Johnson’s “strong leadership” in demanding passage of a budget resolution passed by the House in September.

“Once the government is reopened, however, we should immediately turn our focus to the growing crisis of healthcare affordability and the looming expiration of the en

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