Greene
doubles down on remarks about Affordable Care Act subsidies
by Tara
Suter - 10/07/25 9:59 PM ET
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5544215-greene-remarks-affordable-care-act-subsidies/
Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) doubled down on recent remarks about Affordable
Care Act (ACA) subsidies amid a government shutdown battle centered around
health care.
“The
issues of the subsidies are real. It’s not something that anybody can say is
made up,” Greene told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill. “Also, people
with regular or private plans, their premiums are looking to go up a median of
18 percent, that’s brutal. I know a lot of small business owners, like a family
of four, and they’re paying $2,000 a month.”
“If you
double their health insurance, or even triple it, these people are going to
they’re either going to have to drop it, or they’re going to be choosing
between rent and their insurance,” Greene later added.
She also
said she thinks Republicans “got to get real and actually come up with a
solution.”
“I’m
literally here in Washington saying, you guys, if we don’t fix this right now,
Americans are going to be hurting, and they really don’t care about R and D.
They’re going to be talking about what’s happening to their bank accounts,
what’s happening to their family, and that’s how they’re going to vote,” she
told Burman.
Greene
indicated on Monday a willingness to negotiate with Democrats on health care
demands. The Georgia Republican said she was “absolutely disgusted” that health
insurance premiums could double in the case of ACA tax credits expiring
“But I’m
going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire
this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to
DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my
district,” Greene said in a post on the social platform X.
“No I’m
not towing the party line on this, or playing loyalty games. I’m a Republican
and won’t vote for illegals to have any tax payer funded healthcare or
benefits,” she added.
On
Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) argued the end-of-year deadline to
extend ACA subsidies was an “eternity” away.
“We have
effectively three months to negotiate. In the White House and in the halls of
Congress, that’s like an eternity,” Johnson told MSNBC’s Ali Vitali.
The
subsidies were introduced amid the COVID-19 pandemic and extended through the
end of 2025 via the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. Open enrollment in most
states begins on Nov. 1, and insurers may raise premiums if they believe the
subsidies will expire.
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