“We have worked for months to craft a two-party solution to address these expiring healthcare credits. We’ve worked for months with both parties, in both chambers, and with the White House, all in good faith, to balance all equities and offer a responsible bridge that successfully threaded the needle.  

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. House leadership then decided to reject every single one of these amendments. 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. Unfortunately, it is House leadership themselves that have forced this outcome.

I continue to believe any extension must be targeted, fiscally responsible, focused on lower- and middle-income families, include income limits, modernizes HSAs, and guards against fraud—principles reflected in bipartisan work underway in the Senate.

When the process breaks down, responsibility doesn’t. 

Our job is to protect the people we serve, and I will not stand by while a preventable crisis unfolds."