Tensions are high on Capitol Hill, and days are numbered before lawmakers leave for the holidays, but that isn’t tempering their ambition to get through a lengthy slate of work.
Enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits that expire at the end of the year are driving much of the tension, with Republicans in both chambers miles apart on whether to extend them. Rank-and-file House lawmakers have released a slew of bipartisan proposals in a Hail Mary effort to secure an extension, but GOP leaders are digging in against the Covid-era subsidies.
While House and Senate leaders face minor ...