Are Republicans going to do a deal on health care?

Republicans are sending mixed signals about extending the Obamacare subsidies due to expire at year’s end. President Donald Trump has suggested both that he would do a deal and that he would “rather not.” At stake is health care for up to 20 million Americans.

Trump said last week he is “open” to extending the subsidies a year to give Congress time to replace the Affordable Care Act , said Politico . An extension “may be necessary to get something else done,” Trump said. Any action will come grudgingly. “I’d rather not extend them at all,” he told reporters. The ambivalence is clear. The White House planned, then canceled, the announcement of a two-year extension of ACA subsidies “with new limitations favored by conservatives,” said Politico.

Republicans are playing tug-of-wa