Roundup: Congress Skips Town Without ACA Vote, Trump Reclassifies Cannabis
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional reporter Sam Gringlas, and White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram.
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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from Subaru, celebrating the Subaru Share the Love event now through January 2nd. |
| 0:06.7 | By year's end, Subaru and its retailers will have donated more than $350 million to charity. |
| 0:13.3 | Subaru, more than a car company. |
| 0:16.1 | Hi, this is Melissa in Pasadena, California. |
| 0:19.3 | I just finished baking over 350 cookies in preparation for our 10th annual cocktails and cookie decorating party. |
| 0:27.7 | This podcast was recorded at 12.38 p.m. on Friday, December 19th. |
| 0:33.5 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it. Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:41.2 | Ah. Things may have changed by the time you hear it. Okay, here's the show. I want an invite. |
| 0:44.0 | I want to see the cookies that are decorated after a few cocktails. |
| 0:48.3 | That's so funny. |
| 0:49.5 | Versus the ones at the beginning. |
| 0:51.1 | Hey, there is the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:53.1 | I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm Deepa Shivaram. I also cover the White House. I'm Sam Greenglass. I cover Congress. |
| 0:59.0 | And it's time to wrap up the week in Washington where a lot happened. I want to start with |
| 1:04.5 | something that remains unresolved. Dealing with the health care tax subsidies that are about to expire. |
| 1:10.9 | These were financial payments put in place during the pandemic to help people buy health insurance. |
| 1:16.2 | And without them, a lot of people are going to see their health insurance costs go way, way up. |
| 1:22.9 | Sam, Congress has been staring at this deadline for weeks now. It was part of why the government |
| 1:29.7 | was shut down earlier this year. What is the latest? Well, Congress has officially left Washington |
| 1:37.0 | without taking any action on these subsidies. The House and Senate did vote on a couple of competing |
| 1:43.2 | health care bills before they left |
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