A former key Trump ally plans her departure from Congress.

Doge quietly dissolves and Washington grapples with rising health care costs yet again.

To discuss that and more, we turn now to our Politics Monday duo.

That is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

It's always great to see you both.

So President Trump today was expected to unveil his plan to deal with spiking Obamacare premiums,

but that announcement, our White House and congressional teams are told,

was delayed after congressional Republicans pushed back against the president's apparent sudden embrace of these expiring subsidies.

Amy, what does this delay tell us about the internal dynamics of the

Republican Party, especially between the White House and Republican congressional leadership?

Right. So the issue of health care is something that Republicans in Congress have long

grappled with and not really found an answer to. I went back because I remembered after John Boehner,

the former speaker, was out of office for a little

while. In 2017, when the first version of repeal and replace, the ACA came up, he was quoted

at a conference saying, I've been in Congress for 25 years. I've never seen one time when Congress

agreed what a health care proposal should look like. In other words,

even before the replace and repeal failed in 2018, he was predicting it wasn't going to work because Republicans have such a tough time on this issue. So that's number one. The second is that

where the divide really is between a president who believes that this is a

political liability coming up in the midterms.

He sees where the polls are.

He sees how much support there is for extending these ACA subsidies and his Republicans in

Congress who ideologically are deeply opposed to everything that the ACA stands for, and many of whom voted

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