House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks with reporters after the vote to re-open the government, at the US Capitol on November 12, 2025. Alex Wroblewski/AFP/Getty Images

Republicans in Washington successfully defused the 43-day government shutdown without surrendering to Democrats’ demands to spend billions more to offset spiking health insurance costs.

Now, the GOP is under mounting pressure to figure out its own plan.

Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire in just weeks – which would more than double the cost of premiums nationally for tens of millions of Americans. And it’s causing deep anxiety among some in the party, particularly in battleground seats, who worry Republicans will end up doing nothing to prevent those price hikes and enter a critical midterm year wi

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