The US Capitol on the evening of Tuesday, September 30, 2025, just a few hours before the Federal Government was closed. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
Washington – The expansive majority of Americans, including Republicans and those who identify as forceful supporters of President Donald Trump, want the congress to renew the improved tax credits for people who buy their health insurance from the market for Affordable Care Act, as can be seen from a survey published on Friday.
More than 78% of the people surveyed by the impartial health organization KFF who were interviewed by KFF at the end of September wanted the legislators to keep the extended credits. Their expansion has become an crucial linchpin in the debate about the government’s closure.
When 92% of Democrats, 82% of the independent and 59% of Republicans were interrupted by the political party, they supported the renewal of the loans.
Within the Republican party, 57% of the people who are supported by Trump’s America Great guidelines and 70% of the GOP voters who identified themselves as non-Maga supporters The survey.
Expenses account for tax credit debate
The expansion of the ACA tax credit was created by Democrats in a Coronavirus Aid Act approved during the Biden administration, which is due to expire at the end of the year.
Democrats have repeatedly asked the Republicans to negotiate and have an expansion of the extended tax credits Hold on a Stopgap edition calculation To force these conversations to pass now and not later in the year.
Spokesman Mike Johnson, R-La., Said on Thursday that the discussion should take place in the coming months and that the GOP legislators will push for a “big reform”.
“It is not an easy topic. It will take weeks for it to consider, discuss and discuss, but that is the beauty of the process. We have three months to do this. This is not an issue for today,” said Johnson. “Today is the only question of whether you want to vote to keep the government into operation for the people.”
The Democrats are not very agreed and say that a cross -party agreement before the open registration period for ACA plans on November 1 must be taken if consumers receive major cost increases for the next year.
“We cannot accept an empty promise, namely” Oh, we will deal with it later, “said Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., On a call with reporters on Thursday.” The fact is that this crisis is now ahead of us. People receive their bonus this month if the Senate does not act. “
Murray said she “ironic” that Republican leaders say that they are negotiating with Democrats about health care as soon as the government was reopened after refusing to negotiate with us throughout this time when the government was opened. “
The house was mainly true after party lines In mid-September, a seven-week stop gap expenditure law approved, which has been set in the Senate since then, which led to closing.
The upper chamber, in which large legislation needs at least 60 votes to get forward, will vote again on Friday to try to advance the tiny -term financing law of Republicans, although it is unlikely that it will progress in the patient.
Many of these respondents knew little about the switch -off debate
The KFF survey dealt with public knowledge and understanding of the improved tax credits for health insurance plans for ACA Marketplace and found that 61% of the respondents knew nothing or just a little about the problem.
Another 32% of the respondents stated that some of the political debate and 7% stated that they knew a lot.
The survey of 1,334 adults took place from September 23 to September 29 and has an error rate of plus or minus 3 percentage points for a complete survey. Every political question has an error rate of plus or minus 6 percentage points.
The government’s closure began on October 1, shortly after the survey.
The concern about the effects that the extended tax credits fail, when KFF asked the question in different ways, although those who said they were “very concerned”.
Six -fifty percent were very concerned and 30% were a bit worried when she was informed that “health insurance would not be affordable for many people who buy their own cover” if the extended tax credits were not extended.
The number of people who would be very or would be concerned was 76%high among Republicans, 78%and Maga supporter.
The respondents, who were very concerned, rose to 60%when they announced that “about 4 million people lose their health insurance protection” if they did not receive the extended credits. Another 26% stated that they were a little worried and 10% stated that they were not too concerned, and the rest of the respondents stated that they were not worried at all.
When the number of people who were very or worried, the political party collapsed, 76% of Republicans and 73% of the Maga supporters remained concern.
Small business employees, independent people
Fifty percent of the respondents stated that they were very concerned when they were communicated that “millions of people who work in small companies or are self-employed are directly influenced because many of them are dependent on the ACA market.”
Another 33% stated that they were concerned, 11% stated that they were not too concerned and the rest stated that they were not worried at all.
75 percent of the Republicans and 72% of the Maga supporters replied that they were very or worried about the question of this question.
The survey showed that the congress, which is expanded to expand the extended tax credits that now exist, is connected with a certain concern about the price tag.
When asked how concerned people would be if they heard that “it would require considerable federal expenditure that were largely paid by taxpayers”, said 27% that they would be very concerned, 36% worried, 28% were not too concerned and 8% were not affected at all.
Forty -one percent of the Republicans stated that they would be very concerned, and another 41% respond that they would be worried. Another 15% stated that they were not too concerned about the rest that they were not worried at all.
