Washington Today (12-16-25): Spkr. Johnson rules out House vote on extending expiring ACA subsidies

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says there will not be a vote on an amendment to extend expiring Affordable Care Act enhanced premium subsidies as part of a House Republican health care bill this week, and some moderate Republicans are not happy about it.

Labor Department releases a jobs report that was delayed due to the federal government shutdown that shows 105,000 jobs lost in October, then in November, 64,000 jobs gained and the unemployment rate rising to 4.6 percent.

Vice President JD Vance talks about the economy at a factory near Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tells Senators & House Members in closed briefings the Pentagon will not release the full video of the second strike against an alleged illegal drug carrying boat in the Caribbean in September that reportedly killed survivors of the first strike, due to its classified and top-secret nature. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also took part in the briefing.

FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford says to the House Aviation Subcommittee the FAA was not consulted before a provision was included in the House-passed defense authorization bill about military helicopter flights near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that some Members and the NTSB Chair say will decrease safety.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in an interview with Vanity Fair, says President Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality" and Vice President JD Vance is a “conspiracy theorist".

A statue of a civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns replaces a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in representing Virginia in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall collection.

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Title: Washington Today (12-16-25): Spkr. Johnson rules out House vote on extending expiring ACA subsidies
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