Four Republicans voted yes on the discharge petition to force a vote on the health care subsidies.

The bill they forced to vote on was written by Democrats, obviously, and it would have extended the subsidies for three years.

When that vote happened, 17 Republicans voted to make health care insurance more affordable for their constituents, along with all of the Democrats and the bill

passed. The bill then moved to the Senate, where Republican leader of the Senate, John Thune,

is refusing to allow a vote on it, and it appears dead, along with any American who can't afford

health insurance or to pay for cancer treatments or for major

surgeries out of pocket. Put another way, millions of us had a problem that Congress caused and could

solve, but this Congress chose not to. I am so damn tired of being lied to. I don't think I can deny it

anymore

you can't stick to your story

if you think it flies

but I'm not gonna buy it if you think it flies.

But I'm not going to buy it anymore.

Hello, my friend, and thank you for listening to the 33rd episode of Congressional Dish.

I'm your host, Jennifer Briney.

And today's episode is going to be a summary of January 2026. And it wasn't the busiest month, but some things did go down. We had a shift in the whip count

in the House of Representatives, which means there was a change in the number of Republicans,

and I'll tell you why that happened. We also got a new government funding law, which was signed many months late, but I read that

funding law, and I will let you know it was in it. We also had a handful of new laws that might

affect your life. I'll let you know about those. And there was one Trump administration official

who was confirmed by the Senate to his job, whose resume was just too

crazy to ignore. So I'll tell you about him. And then finally, we're going to look at the big picture

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