DNC launches ad campaign on health insurance costs as shutdown fight drags on
The ads, shared first with CQ Roll Call, focus on notices that health insurance providers are set to send out this month detailing premium costs for 2026 plans.Â
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Federal courts plan to have less to spend on security this fiscal year
Not all of that supplemental funding has been used up, according to the office, the remaining money is expected to be delegated in fiscal 2026.
​White House may nix pay for workers furloughed during shutdown
Collins is shopping a commitment, in writing, to take up the Affordable Care Act tax credit issue as well as full-year fiscal 2026 spending packages, by a date certain.Â
Lawmakers’ health care, government shutdown claims
KFF has since updated that analysis, finding that the average increase would be 114 percent in 2026.
Trump open to bipartisan health care deal to end shutdown
Appropriations conference For Republicans, part of the conversation has always been about buying time to get fiscal 2026 appropriations bills done.
Shutdown drags on amid talk of side deals to get stopgap unstuck
Mike Rounds, R-S.D., referring to passing regular fiscal 2026 spending bills this month. Sen.
Shutdown to extend into next week as Trump readies budget knife
enhanced health insurance subsidies for coverage bought on government-run exchanges that expire at the end of the year, arguing it can’t wait because insurers are already locking in their premium rates for 2026
Both parties try to win the ‘blame game’ as government shutdown hits nation
Paul LePage in 2026, said that he supports extending the tax credits but that Republicans "have reasonable concerns about tax credits going to high-income households."
Health insurance marketplace rate hikes top 20 percent in most states, Cantwell says
In many cases, insurers that provide marketplace plans are raising rates for 2026 to account for the possibility that subsidies will lapse.
White House tells agencies to prep mass layoffs for shutdown
Once fiscal 2026 appropriations are enacted, the memo says, agencies "should revise their RIFs as needed to retain the minimal number of employees necessary to carry out statutory functions."
Trump-Democrats meeting drama fuels risk of shutdown
Health insurance At the heart of the dispute is how to address the expiration of health insurance subsidies, a politically fraught issue for vulnerable Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Trump to meet with Democratic leaders ahead of shutdown deadline
But Democrats argue that with health insurers setting policy rates now, it will be too late to retroactively fix the problem for the 2026 plan year unless lawmakers act now.
Temporary spending bill passes House, likely to stall in Senate
But they ended up voting for the bill after leadership expanded a pilot program for members to hire private security and promised to bolster funding in the fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch appropriations
Partisan stopgap funding bills fall short in Senate
And Murkowski wants the three full-year fiscal 2026 spending bills that are headed for a House-Senate conference committee — Military Construction-VA, Agriculture and Legislative Branch — attached to the
Kennedy’s vaccine advisory panel upends shot recommendations
representing health insurers, announced earlier this week that it would continue to cover all immunizations that were recommended as of Sept. 1, 2025, and coverage would be available through the end of 2026
Permanent health tax credit extension would insure 3.8 million: CBO
CBO estimates that gross premiums for marketplace "benchmark plans" would be lower by an average of 7.6 percent each year between 2026 to 2035 compared with its baseline projections if the subsidies are
Neither side blinking yet as House preps for CR vote
nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office say if the enhanced health care subsidies aren’t extended now, it will be too late for insurers to lower premiums offered for plans purchased on the exchanges for the 2026
Senate leaders set up dueling votes on stopgap funding bills
Thune said there would be additional funds included in the forthcoming fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch conference report, and that senators are working with the sergeant-at-arms’ office "to identify additional
Oz offers recourse if Congress can’t quickly resolve subsidies
Insurers say it will be extremely difficult for them to adjust premiums for the 2026 plan year if Congress doesn’t act to extend them before the end of the month.
GOP leaders try to quell stopgap concerns as House vote nears
Steil said the pilot program enhancement, plus the opportunity for more funding in the upcoming conference negotiations on the fiscal 2026Â Legislative Branch appropriations bill, should be enough to resolve