“House Democrats are privately clashing with their Senate Democratic counterparts and the White House over hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending on health care programs included in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, according to multiple Democrats sources close to the talks. Several key House committees are slated to begin marking up the package tomorrow,” Punchbowl News reports.
“The intra-party dispute centers around permanently funding the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — as well as potentially expanding both Medicare and Medicaid. The stakes of this fight, politically and substantively, are huge, as the reconciliation package is the centerpiece of the Democratic agenda heading in 2022.”
“The internal Democratic battle over health care is just one of the many challenges Democratic congressional leaders and the White House are struggling with in drafting the enormously complex package.”
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