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11.24.2025 / Statement

Families USA Statement on Trump’s Failed Proposal for Extension of Enhanced Premium Tax Credits 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Anthony Wright, executive director of Families USA, today released the following statement after the Trump administration’s proposal to extend the enhanced premium tax credits was walked back, after being met with significant Congressional backlash.

“The health care proposal floated by the White House over the weekend would have produced higher premiums for nearly everyone who buys coverage as an individual and still push or price millions of people off of coverage. The initial draft did not understand the assignment of stopping the spike in premiums coming in a few short weeks.

“While the proposal was full of poison pills, the fact that President Trump finally felt compelled to have a proposal at all suggests that the calls and cries for help from health care consumers are starting to be heard. After spending the whole year on extending tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, Congress and the President need to extend health care tax credits for working families. It’s not too late to do the right thing, but every day of delay does damage to the health and economic security of American families and the health system on which we all rely.

“The President must come to the table now to pass a clean extension of the enhanced premium tax credits that will lower health care costs and prevent millions of Americans from losing their health care coverage altogether. Serious proposals should not include efforts to make low-income people or older people pay even more, or poison pills to allow insurers to deny people with pre-existing conditions, to further restrict abortion and reproductive health, and other proposals.  On Thanksgiving week in the middle of open enrollment, the American people are screaming for Congress and this administration to lower the cost of health care, and a clean extension of the enhanced premium tax credits would do exactly that, so Congress should get it done.”