House Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a massive gift to Democrats on Tuesday, declaring that the House will spend the first half of 2026 focused on passing a health care bill.

"We're gonna have a vote before the end of the year for sure, and then we're going to continue to do improvements along the way. In the first quarter, second quarter, there's a lot to fix in health care, we've all acknowledged that," Johnson told Punchbowl News.

Those who have been following politics for a while remember how disastrous Republicans' Affordable Care Act repeal effort was during President Donald Trump's first go-round in the White House, in 2017.

Congressional Republicans wanted to repeal the ACA and replace it with a plan that would have, for all intents and purposes, gutted protections for people wi

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