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President Donald Trump delayed an announcement of a plan to extend ACA tax credits.<\/span>Yuri Gripas\/CNP\/Zuma<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n After teasing a plan<\/span> by President Donald Trump to extend Affordable Care Act premium subsidies\u2014currently on track to end within weeks\u2014the White House has indefinitely delayed the announcement under pressure from congressional Republicans, MS NOW reported<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n The last-minute change of plan signals the GOP\u2019s priorities: the party has fought to cut or repeal the ACA since it entered law<\/a> in 2010, and was uncompromising in opposing the subsidies during the record-breaking government shutdown<\/a> that ended earlier in November.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t see how a proposal like this has any chance of getting majority Republican support,\u201d an anonymous House Republican told MS NOW. \u201cWe need to be focused on health care, but extending Obamacare isn\u2019t even serious.\u201d<\/p>\n Unless a deal is reached, Affordable Care Act tax credits expanded during the Biden administration are set to expire at the end of 2025, which would lead<\/a> to the largest-ever annual spike in ACA premiums. The enhanced credits led to more signups for health insurance through the ACA marketplace: Nearly 25 million Americans in 2025, more than double the roughly 11 million who used it in 2020, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n The last thing Republican elected officials want to see, the Center for American Progress\u2019 Bobby Kagan posted on social media Monday, is a deal that protects ACA subsidies. <\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s why they didn\u2019t extend them in OBBBA<\/a>, and that\u2019s why they kept calling them a \u2018December problem\u2019 even though open enrollment began on November 1,\u201d Kagan, the group\u2019s senior director for federal budget policy, wrote.<\/p>\n It\u2019s because congressional Republicans want the enhanced subsidies to expire. That\u2019s why they didn\u2019t extend them in OBBBA, and that\u2019s why they kept calling them a \u201cDecember problem\u201d even though open enrollment began on November 1.<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social<\/a>) November 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Extending the enhanced ACA credits does have support among everyday Republicans: A November poll by KFF<\/a> found that, among Republican and Republican-leaning independents, 72 percent who didn\u2019t identify with MAGA\u2014and almost half of MAGA supporters\u2014wanted ACA tax credits to continue.<\/p>\n If Trump doesn\u2019t sign legislation by December 15 to extend ACA tax credits, millions of Americans will be forced to pay far more\u2014often several hundred dollars a month\u2014for health insurance, or forgo it altogether.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n