<p>四名中间派共和党人在周三与众议院议长迈克·约翰逊（Mike Johnson）决裂，签署了一份由民主党主导的请愿书，迫使众议院就延长三年的增强疫情补贴进行投票，该补贴降低了数百万美国人的健康保险成本。\n 这一令人震惊的举动发生在众议院共和党领导人推进一项未能解决数百万即将面临的高额月保费的医疗保健法案之后，这些保费将在通过《平价医疗法案》（Affordable Care Act）购买保险的税收抵免在年底到期后生效。\n 由纽约的哈基姆·杰弗里斯（Hakeem Jeffries）领导的民主党需要 218 个签名以迫使对他们的法案进行表决，该法案将延长补贴三年。\n 来自宾夕法尼亚州的共和党国会议员布赖恩·菲茨帕特里克（Brian Fitzpatrick）、罗伯特·布雷斯纳汉（Robert Bresnahan）和瑞安·麦肯齐（Ryan Mackenzie），以及来自纽约的迈克·劳勒（Mike Lawler）在周三上午签署了请愿书，使签名总数达到了 218 的魔法数字。根据众议院规则，补贴法案的投票可能会在一月进行。\n“遗憾的是，造成这种结果的正是众议院领导层自己。” 菲茨帕特里克在一份声明中表示。\n 约翰逊周三对记者表示：“我没有失去对众议院的控制。” 他指出，共和党在众议院的多数非常微薄，这使得少数成员能够采用通常无法成功绕过领导层的程序。\n“这些不是正常时期。” 约翰逊说。\n 对共和党领导层的反抗是在围绕医疗补贴的几天谈判后发生的。\n 约翰逊曾讨论过允许更多政治上脆弱的共和党立法者有机会对临时延长补贴的法案进行投票，同时增加如受益者收入上限等变更。\n 但经过几天的讨论，领导层选择了党内更保守的派别，该派别批评补贴是通过《平价医疗法案》支撑一个失败的市场，后者被广泛称为 “奥巴马医保”（Obamacare）。\n 众议院共和党周三推进了一项超过 100 页的医疗保健方案，未包含补贴，而是专注于长期以来寻求的旨在扩大小企业和自雇人士保险覆盖选项的共和党提案。\n 菲茨帕特里克和劳勒试图将补贴的临时延长添加到法案中，但被拒绝。\n“我们唯一的请求是对这一妥协进行表决，以便美国人民的声音能够在这个问题上被听到。这个请求被拒绝了。然后，在众议院领导层的要求下，我和我的同事们提交了多个修正案，并对这些修正案进行了详细的证词。” 菲茨帕特里克说。\n“众议院领导层随后决定拒绝所有这些修正案。”\n“正如我之前多次所说，唯一比没有任何改革的干净三年延长更糟糕的政策就是完全到期而没有任何过渡政策。” 菲茨帕特里克说。\n 劳勒在社交媒体上也表示，“领导层的失败” 让他 “别无选择” 只能签署请愿书。他敦促约翰逊立即将该计划提交表决。\n 杰弗里斯在几周内呼吁共和党人签署他的解除请愿书。他特别挑战在竞争激烈的国会选区的共和党人，如果他们真的想防止选民的保费上涨，就加入这一努力。\n“迈克·约翰逊今天需要将法案提交表决。” 杰弗里斯说。“我们从一开始就立场明确，我们站在希望看到《平价医疗法案》税收抵免延长的美国人民一边，我们很感激现在有了跨党派的联盟来实现这一目标。”\n 即使补贴法案通过众议院，这也远非确定，它在共和党主导的参议院将面临艰难的攀登。\n 上周，共和党人投票否决了补贴的三年延长，并提出了一个替代方案，但也失败了。但对于民主党人来说，一个令人鼓舞的迹象是，四名共和党参议员跨越党派支持了他们的提案。\n 参议院共和党领袖约翰·图恩（John Thune）反对民主党的延长，称其为 “掩盖奥巴马医保不断上升的医疗成本的真实影响的尝试”。</p>

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<p>四名中间派共和党人违抗众议院议长迈克·约翰逊的指令，签署了一份由民主党主导的请愿书，要求对延长奥巴马医保补贴三年的提案进行投票。这一举动挑战了共和党领导层，该领导层推动了一项未能解决不断上涨的保费的医疗保健法案。请愿书的签名达到了 218 个，促成了地面投票。尽管出现了反抗，约翰逊仍然保持控制，强调共和党多数席位的微薄。该法案在共和党主导的参议院面临挑战，尽管一些共和党参议员支持延长补贴</p>

<p>Four centrist Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhanced pandemic-era subsidy that lowers health insurance costs for millions of Americans.\nThe stunning move comes after House Republican leaders pushed ahead with a healthcare bill that does not address the soaring monthly premiums that millions of people will soon endure when the tax credits for those who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act expire at year’s end.\nDemocrats led by Hakeem Jeffries of New York needed 218 signatures to force a floor vote on their bill, which would extend the subsides for three years.\nRepublican congressmen Brian Fitzpatrick, Robert Bresnahan and Ryan Mackenzie, all from Pennsylvania, and Mike Lawler of New York signed on Wednesday morning, pushing it to the magic number of 218. A vote on the subsidy bill could come as soon as January under House rules.\n“Unfortunately, it is House leadership themselves that have forced this outcome.” Fitzpatrick said in a statement.\n\nJohnson told reporters Wednesday that “I have not lost control of the House” and he noted that Republicans have a razor-thin majority that allows a small number of members to employ procedures that would not usually be successful in getting around leadership.\n“These are not normal times,” Johnson said.\nThe revolt against Republican leadership came after days of talks centred on the healthcare subsidies.\nJohnson had discussed allowing more politically vulnerable Republican lawmakers a chance to vote on bills that would temporarily extend the subsidies while also adding changes such as income caps for beneficiaries.\nBut after days of discussions, the leadership sided with the more conservative wing of the party’s conference, which has assailed the subsidies as propping up a failed marketplace through the ACA, which is widely known as “Obamacare”.\nHouse Republicans pushed ahead on Wednesday with a 100-plus-page healthcare package without the subsidies, instead focusing on long-sought Republican proposals designed to expand insurance coverage options for small businesses and the self-employed.\nFitzpatrick and Lawler tried to add a temporary extension of the subsidies to the bill, but were denied.\n“Our only request was a floor vote on this compromise, so that the American people’s voice could be heard on this issue. That request was rejected. Then, at the request of House leadership I, along with my colleagues, filed multiple amendments and testified at length to those amendments,” Fitzpatrick said.\n“House leadership then decided to reject every single one of these amendments.”\n\n“As I’ve stated many times before, the only policy that is worse than a clean three-year extension without any reforms is a policy of complete expiration without any bridge,” Fitzpatrick said.\nLawler, in a social media post, similarly said that “the failure of leadership” to permit a vote had left him with “no choice” but to sign the petition. He urged Johnson to bring the plan up for an immediate floor vote.\nJeffries, for several weeks, had called on Republicans to sign his discharge petition. He particularly challenged Republicans in competitive congressional districts to join the effort if they really wanted to prevent premium increases for their constituents.\n“Mike Johnson needs to bring the bill to the floor today,” Jeffries said. “Our position from the very beginning was that we are standing on the right side of the American people who want to see the Affordable Care Act tax credits extended, and we’re appreciative that we now have the bipartisan coalition to get that done.”\nEven if the subsidy bill were to pass the House, which is far from assured, it would face an arduous climb in the Republican-led Senate.\nRepublicans last week voted down a three-year extension of the subsidies and proposed an alternative that also failed. But in an encouraging sign for Democrats, four Republican senators crossed party lines to support their proposal.\nSenate Republican Leader John Thune argued against the Democratic extension as “an attempt to disguise the real impact of Obamacare’s spiralling healthcare costs”.\n</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>四名中间派共和党人在周三与众议院议长迈克·约翰逊（Mike Johnson）决裂，签署了一份由民主党主导的请愿书，迫使众议院就延长三年的增强疫情补贴进行投票，该补贴降低了数百万美国人的健康保险成本。\n 这一令人震惊的举动发生在众议院共和党领导人推进一项未能解决数百万即将面临的高额月保费的医疗保健法案之后，这些保费将在通过《平价医疗法案》（Affordable Care Act）购买保险的税收抵免在年底到期后生效。\n 由纽约的哈基姆·杰弗里斯（Hakeem Jeffries）领导的民主党需要 218 个签名以迫使对他们的法案进行表决，该法案将延长补贴三年。\n 来自宾夕法尼亚州的共和党国会议员布赖恩·菲茨帕特里克（Brian Fitzpatrick）、罗伯特·布雷斯纳汉（Robert Bresnahan）和瑞安·麦肯齐（Ryan Mackenzie），以及来自纽约的迈克·劳勒（Mike Lawler）在周三上午签署了请愿书，使签名总数达到了 218 的魔法数字。根据众议院规则，补贴法案的投票可能会在一月进行。\n“遗憾的是，造成这种结果的正是众议院领导层自己。” 菲茨帕特里克在一份声明中表示。\n 约翰逊周三对记者表示：“我没有失去对众议院的控制。” 他指出，共和党在众议院的多数非常微薄，这使得少数成员能够采用通常无法成功绕过领导层的程序。\n“这些不是正常时期。” 约翰逊说。\n 对共和党领导层的反抗是在围绕医疗补贴的几天谈判后发生的。\n 约翰逊曾讨论过允许更多政治上脆弱的共和党立法者有机会对临时延长补贴的法案进行投票，同时增加如受益者收入上限等变更。\n 但经过几天的讨论，领导层选择了党内更保守的派别，该派别批评补贴是通过《平价医疗法案》支撑一个失败的市场，后者被广泛称为 “奥巴马医保”（Obamacare）。\n 众议院共和党周三推进了一项超过 100 页的医疗保健方案，未包含补贴，而是专注于长期以来寻求的旨在扩大小企业和自雇人士保险覆盖选项的共和党提案。\n 菲茨帕特里克和劳勒试图将补贴的临时延长添加到法案中，但被拒绝。\n“我们唯一的请求是对这一妥协进行表决，以便美国人民的声音能够在这个问题上被听到。这个请求被拒绝了。然后，在众议院领导层的要求下，我和我的同事们提交了多个修正案，并对这些修正案进行了详细的证词。” 菲茨帕特里克说。\n“众议院领导层随后决定拒绝所有这些修正案。”\n“正如我之前多次所说，唯一比没有任何改革的干净三年延长更糟糕的政策就是完全到期而没有任何过渡政策。” 菲茨帕特里克说。\n 劳勒在社交媒体上也表示，“领导层的失败” 让他 “别无选择” 只能签署请愿书。他敦促约翰逊立即将该计划提交表决。\n 杰弗里斯在几周内呼吁共和党人签署他的解除请愿书。他特别挑战在竞争激烈的国会选区的共和党人，如果他们真的想防止选民的保费上涨，就加入这一努力。\n“迈克·约翰逊今天需要将法案提交表决。” 杰弗里斯说。“我们从一开始就立场明确，我们站在希望看到《平价医疗法案》税收抵免延长的美国人民一边，我们很感激现在有了跨党派的联盟来实现这一目标。”\n 即使补贴法案通过众议院，这也远非确定，它在共和党主导的参议院将面临艰难的攀登。\n 上周，共和党人投票否决了补贴的三年延长，并提出了一个替代方案，但也失败了。但对于民主党人来说，一个令人鼓舞的迹象是，四名共和党参议员跨越党派支持了他们的提案。\n 参议院共和党领袖约翰·图恩（John Thune）反对民主党的延长，称其为 “掩盖奥巴马医保不断上升的医疗成本的真实影响的尝试”。</p>
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4 名共和党人违抗众议院议长，强制进行投票以延长奥巴马医保补贴