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Affordable Care Act tax credits that were expanded during the pandemic

are set to expire in roughly two weeks.

As NPR's Deirdre Walsh reports,

competing plans to address health care costs

failed to advance in the Senate on Thursday. 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.

Republicans in Indiana's Senate have rejected White House pressure to create more GOP districts.

As Ben Thorpe of Member Station, WFYI reports, they voted down a new congressional map that was created to give the GOP an advantage in next year's midterm elections.

There were protesters against redistricting that you could hear from inside the Senate chamber today, and looming over everything was this pressure from the Trump administration.

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