Senate Rejects Health Care Bills As Obamacare Deadline Looms

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Can a majority in a deeply divided Congress agree on a health care fix before the deadline in less than three weeks when premiums for millions of Americans could go up drastically? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If two votes failed today, what happens tomorrow?
0:05.0	The lead starts right now.
0:08.0	A Congress deeply divided.
0:12.0	No surprise there.
0:14.0	All lawmakers agree, Obamacare is not perfect.
0:19.0	But can a majority in Congress agree on a fix before the deadline in less than three weeks
0:27.0	when premiums for millions of Americans could go up drastically?
0:31.8	But first, the breaking news, go now evacuation orders as an atmospheric river floods part of Washington
0:40.7	State and swift water teams go door to door making rescues.
0:46.2	And some breaking news out of Indiana, a major Republican pushback on the pressure campaign
0:53.5	led by President Trump and his allies.
0:55.9	They wanted state Republicans to redraw state congressional maps mid-decade.
1:02.3	Will there be consequences for the state of Indiana for this major Trump rebuke?
1:10.2	This is CNN breaking news.
1:13.6	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, and we are following this breaking news moments ago.
1:18.7	Indiana State Senate Republicans rejected President Trump's intense push to enact a new
1:25.4	congressional map ahead of 2026.
1:28.0	The 31 to 19 vote saw 21 Republicans joining 10 Democrats to vote to vote down this new congressional
1:38.0	map that would have favored Republicans in all nine congressional districts and eliminated
1:43.6	its two currently held by Democrats' seats.
1:48.2	The vote holds massive implications for the 26 midterms for Republicans as President Trump
1:52.7	threatens serious consequences for those who voted against his wishes and even against the state of
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