{"id":5647,"date":"2026-01-18T16:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5647"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:55:24","slug":"legislative-tool-to-circumvent-house-leadership-gets-biggest-win-yet-on-obamacare-subsidies-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/legislative-tool-to-circumvent-house-leadership-gets-biggest-win-yet-on-obamacare-subsidies-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Tool to Circumvent House Leadership Gets Biggest Win Yet on Obamacare Subsidies Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Kosar-Discharge-petition-WEX-01-21-2026.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"661\" height=\"853\" data-attachment-id=\"5648\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/legislative-tool-to-circumvent-house-leadership-gets-biggest-win-yet-on-obamacare-subsidies-vote\/kosar-discharge-petition-wex-01-21-2026\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Kosar-Discharge-petition-WEX-01-21-2026.png\" data-orig-size=\"661,853\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kosar Discharge petition WEX 01-21-2026\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Kosar-Discharge-petition-WEX-01-21-2026-232x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Kosar-Discharge-petition-WEX-01-21-2026.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Kosar-Discharge-petition-WEX-01-21-2026.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Kosar-Discharge-petition-WEX-01-21-2026.png 661w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Kosar-Discharge-petition-WEX-01-21-2026-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Congress<\/a>\u00a0returned to work in Washington, and one of the first issues lawmakers addressed was government health insurance subsidies. These temporary, emergency subsidies were first enacted during the coronavirus pandemic and expired at the end of last year. On Jan. 8,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/202611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">213 Democrats and 17 Republicans<\/a>\u00a0voted to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4411842\/house-votes-renew-obamacare-subsidies-blow-gop-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extend<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/community-family\/4412118\/congressional-debate-obamacare-subsidies-sidesteps-deep-drivers-medical-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Obamacare subsidies<\/a>\u00a0for three years&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/4407200\/discharge-petition-biggest-win-obamacare-subsidies-vote\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress\u00a0returned to work in Washington, and one of the first issues lawmakers addressed was government health insurance subsidies. These temporary, emergency subsidies were first enacted during the coronavirus pandemic and expired at the end of last year. On Jan. 8,\u00a0213 Democrats and 17 Republicans\u00a0voted to\u00a0extend\u00a0the\u00a0Obamacare subsidies\u00a0for three years&#8230;.(Read more)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-5647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-the-washington-examiner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1t5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5649,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}