Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Kristen Welker in Washington, where a new poll shows the president struggling on key issues.

As the White House grapples with its messaging on affordability,

as a looming health care premium

spike threatens to magnify the issue for millions of Americans, and it all comes as the president

was dealt a major rebuke by members of his own party, complicating Republicans' efforts to hold

the House in next year's midterms. But we do begin with Republicans' health care dilemma.

After dueling bills failed in the Senate yesterday, attention now turns to the House. Speaker Johnson

says he's expecting a vote on health care next week. Telling reporters earlier today the, quote,

final details of a Republican plan are in the works.

We had a very productive meeting just now with lots of leaders from across the conference.

Everybody is coming together on the final plan.

We're still working on the final details of it.

There are some great ideas put on the table just now.

This is going to be a great piece of legislation that everybody we unite around. So stay tuned for the

detail. You're planning on announcing it today. I don't think we'll probably announce the final

details today, but you can look forward to that, probably coming together over the weekends.

But that Republican House plan is not expected to include an extension of the expiring

Affordable Care Act subsidies. In contrast to two Republican-led bills that have already been

introduced and have Democratic co-sponsors, today Minority Leader Jeffrey is saying

Democratic leadership could be open to those bipartisan plans, which would likely give them

enough support to be brought for a vote.

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