Why Republicans are struggling to unify on health care

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  Good morning.

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  It's Wednesday, December 17th.

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  I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  Coming up on today's show, frustrations mount over the Brown University investigation.

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  What authorities are probing after the Bondi beach shooting,

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  and President Trump calls for a blockade near Venezuela.

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  But first,

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  House Speaker Mike Johnson announced yesterday that he would not call a vote to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.

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  That means that in all likelihood,

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  millions of Americans who get their coverage under the ACA are going to see premiums go up next year.

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  Now he explained that many members in his conference,

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  particularly some who might face difficult elections in next year's midterms,

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  had wanted to extend the funding.

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  Many of them did want to vote on this Obamacare COVID era subsidy that Democrats created.

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  We looked for a way to try to allow for that pressure release valve, and it just was not to be.

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  We worked on it all the way through the weekend, in fact.

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  And in the end, there was not an agreement wasn't made.

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  One of those lawmakers, Republican Mike Lawler of New York,

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  said that it was, quote, idiotic that Johnson wouldn't pursue the extension.

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