[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 214 (Thursday, December 18, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H6098-H6099]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   REPUBLICAN HEALTHCARE LEGISLATION

  (Mr. MENENDEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about the new 
Republican healthcare legislation.
  Instead of extending Affordable Care Act tax credits and keeping 
premiums from skyrocketing, House Republicans are pushing a plan that 
would force more than 20 million Americans to pay, on average, twice as 
much for the same coverage they have today. As a result, 4 million 
Americans will lose their insurance while others are going to be forced 
to pay far more for far worse coverage.
  Americans are already facing an affordability crisis. The House 
Republican solution is to cut a trillion dollars from healthcare, pass 
the largest cut to SNAP in history, and do nothing while Trump's 
tariffs raise costs across the board.
  When families are struggling every day to keep their heads above 
water, House Republicans are cutting all lifelines and throwing them a 
bag of bricks.
  This is not how government is meant to work. We need to uplift the 
American people and give them a fair shot at a good life that rewards 
hard work.
  That is what House Democrats will always fight for, a government that 
works for you, the American people. That is why we are forcing a vote 
to extend the ACA subsidies. We should not leave D.C. until we have 
that vote.
  Regardless of what the Republicans do, the American people need to 
know that House Democrats, when we are back in the majority, will fight 
for a healthcare system that works for all Americans.

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