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Some 24 million people on Affordable Care Act insurance face health care premiums soaring an average of 114%.
The moves by GOP leaders to resist Democrats’ demands to protect expiring subsidies for Obamacare as the price for reopening federal agencies will save the government billions of dollars and weaken a program the party has tried repeatedly to kill.
But with millions of Americans now facing a spike in health care premium costs at the start of next year, the issue could quickly become a drag on Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections.
Democrats are already sharpening their pitch to voters, seizing the affordability mantle that Trump carried in his 2024 presidential campaign but has struggled to realize in a second term focused more on international affairs than bread-and-butter issues. Rising premiums — which are doubling or tripling for some Americans — will feed Democrats’ narrative.
The moves by GOP leaders to resist Democrats’ demands to protect expiring subsidies for Obamacare as the price for reopening federal agencies will save the government billions of dollars and weaken a program the party has tried repeatedly to kill.
But with millions of Americans now facing a spike in health care premium costs at the start of next year, the issue could quickly become a drag on Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections.
Democrats are already sharpening their pitch to voters, seizing the affordability mantle that Trump carried in his 2024 presidential campaign but has struggled to realize in a second term focused more on international affairs than bread-and-butter issues. Rising premiums — which are doubling or tripling for some Americans — will feed Democrats’ narrative.
