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Affordable Care Act tax credits expanded during the pandemic era are on track to expire at the end of the month.

NPR's Deirdre Walsh reports competing plans from both parties to address health care costs failed to advance in the U.S. Senate.

Senate Democrats proposed extending existing health care subsidies failed to advance in the U.S. Senate. Senate Democrats proposed extending existing

health care subsidies for three years. Four Republicans backed that bill, but it failed to get the 60

votes to advance. A Republican bill to give consumers up to $1,500 to use in health savings accounts

also failed to advance. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blamed the GOP for blocking action weeks before people

will face spikes in health care costs.

Now Republicans have all but guaranteed that tens of millions of people will see their

premiums double or triple or more next year.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is vowing the House will vote on some health care bill,

but there is no agreement on the details.

Swing District House Republicans are working to force a vote

to extend the ACA subsidies for one or two years.

Deirdre Walsh, NPR News, the Capitol.

Senators from both parties are pushing for changes to a massive defense policy bill over

concerns about aviation safety. NPR's Joel Rose reports the crash investigators

warn the bill would undermine safety improvements made after a deadly mid-air collision in January.

Safety investigators are vehemently opposed to a provision in the defense policy bill.

They say it would roll back key safety reforms made after the mid-air collision of an Army

Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet in January that killed 67 people.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell, the chairman and ranking

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