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Tell Congress to finally act: pass an ACA tax credit extension now

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  Last week, before Congress went home for the holidays, four Republicans joined House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' discharge petition to force a vote in the House to extend the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits. 1  Now that the discharge petition has 218 signers, the House must vote on the measure when it comes back in January. If the House passes a clean extension of the subsidies, it increases the likelihood that the Senate could act quickly. Send a message to your Senators and Representative urging them to act immediately in January to vote on and pass an extension of the enhanced ACA premium tax credits. SEND A MESSAGE With out-of-pocket premiums more than doubling for tens of millions of people in the New Year, this sets people up with impossible choices between having health insurance or having enough money to pay for other necessities like housing. In November, we asked supporters across the country to share their stories with us, after they knew w...