Good evening. I'm Amman Abbas.

And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, the U.S. Senate rejects proposed plans to address a spike in health care premiums under the Affordable Care Act.

Ukraine pushes for security guarantees against Russia as international pressure to accept the peace plan grows.

And economists warn of major risks created by private credit that could pose as larger threat

as the housing market did before the Great Recession.

One of the issues with private credit is the lack of transparency.

It's very opaque.

It's not like the banking system where it's highly regulated and you know exactly what's going on.

Welcome to the News Hour. The U.S. Senate failed to pass two dueling pieces of health care legislation

today, leaving Affordable Care Act tax credits all but certain to expire at the end of the year.

As lawmakers prepare for year-end recess with no agreement in sight, tens of millions of Americans

who rely on the ACA are being left in limbo.

The expired subsidies would lead to a sharp rise in health insurance premiums starting next

month.

Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin was at the Capitol today and joins us now.

So Lisa, walk us through.

What happened today?

What we had today in the Senate was Republicans and Democrats, each having one shot to put up a

bill to deal with these expiring enhanced tax credits. Now, these are enhanced credits on top of

what was originally in Obamacare. So we saw both parties put up bills, but frankly, Omna, those

bills, neither one of them seemed likely to pass. Let me go through what they proposed, first of all.

Now, the Republican plan is to limit the enhanced subsidies

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