{"id":8831,"date":"2026-01-02T17:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/01\/02\/could-trump-bring-back-aca-credits-vt-sen-welch-says-yes-burlington-free-press\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:46:42","slug":"could-trump-bring-back-aca-credits-vt-sen-welch-says-yes-burlington-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/01\/02\/could-trump-bring-back-aca-credits-vt-sen-welch-says-yes-burlington-free-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Trump bring back ACA credits? VT Sen. Welch says yes &#8211; Burlington Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 2, 2026, 11:21 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vermont Sen. Peter Welch, a Democrat, said that resurrecting the Affordable Care Act subsidies could depend on President Donald Trump in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/01\/nx-s1-5661598\/sen-peter-welch-d-vt-talks-about-the-future-of-the-aca-as-subsidies-expire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\">an interview with NPR<\/a>\u00a0Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The healthcare subsidies under what\u2019s commonly known as Obamacare\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/12\/11\/aca-subsidies-tax-credits\/87677308007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">expired Jan. 1<\/a>\u00a0after Congress\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/12\/12\/senate-vote-on-aca-subsidies-fails-shaheen-says-not-the-end-of-fight\/87730800007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">failed to extend them<\/a>. They were at the heart of the congressional standoff that resulted in the longest-ever government shutdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 2, 2026, 11:21 a.m. ET Vermont Sen. Peter Welch, a Democrat, said that resurrecting the Affordable Care Act subsidies could depend on President Donald Trump in\u00a0an interview with NPR\u00a0Jan. 1. The healthcare subsidies under what\u2019s commonly known as Obamacare\u00a0expired Jan. 1\u00a0after Congress\u00a0failed to extend them. They were at the heart of the congressional standoff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}