Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., all but hammered a nail into the coffin of the Senate trying to address healthcare in 2025 today.

"We're not going to pass anything by the end of this week. But I do think there is a potential pathway in January," said Thune. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., nixed an idea from GOP moderates for a temporary extension of expiring Obamacare subsidies because it didn’t comply with congressional budgetary rules.

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But this afternoon, Johnson reversed himself and is willing to entertain a plan from Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y.

Rather than simply extending the subsidies on an interim basis, which means that insurance companies receive the money, LaLota’s plan provides a two-year tax deduction for those who previously received the Obamacare aid.

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President Trump said he would not sign a bill that continued to send money to the insurance companies. So, the LaLota approach cuts out insurance companies from the equation, and policyholders score a tax credit.

LaLota and others are due to present their plan in the House Rules Committee later today. It was believed that Johnson and the rules panel would block the older plan to renew the subsidies. But Johnson said "there's a real possibility they get a vote on it."

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That said, a vote is far from a guarantee of a fix. And it’s far from certain that the House would adopt the amendment and copy it onto the underlying GOP health care bill.

The House is set to debate and vote on a bill tomorrow to allow for "association" healthcare plans. That would permit groups of people to pool their money together to purchase insurance plans, and, conceivably, save money.

Some moderates from swing districts are still not satisfied and worried about the political consequences in the 2026 midterms if Republicans fail to address healthcare.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., appeared skeptical that Congress could address the skyrocketing premiums ex post facto in 2026.

"You can't do it after Jan. 1," said Schumer. "It’s expired already. It's not the same as it was before. Once it expires, the toothpaste is out of the tube."

Also today, Schumer refused to commit to Democrats using the same tactics with healthcare to lord over Republicans as the next government funding deadline approaches Jan. 30.

People close to President Donald Trump rejected a CNN chyron in real time on Tuesday, according to network host Dana Bash, who revealed that they were texting her during the show to let her know that they weren't "reeling" over White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles' interview with Vanity Fair.

CNN's chyron during Bash's show on Tuesday read, "White House reeling over Susie Wiles interview."

"You probably saw me looking down while you were talking because I was getting texts from people inside Trump world who say, ‘No, they’re not reeling,’ as our chyron says," Bash told CNN's political director David Chalian during a segment on "Inside Politics." 

"So here we go. Susie Wiles is unfiltered, we’re going to be unfiltered too. And they say that that is not what’s happening. And that is an exaggeration of what’s going on inside. So that’s out there. And we’re going to be transparent about what they’re saying right now," Bash said.

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Chalian said the White House was "circling the wagons" in defense of Wiles.

"I have not met anybody who does not — in Trump world, and frankly, even some Democrats who deal with the White House — who does not adore Susie Wiles," Bash later said. "They just think she’s a straight shooter, and she’s solid and that she is, you know, the person who needs to be there right now for this president at this time."

Vanity Fair published a two-part interview with Wiles, which included some candid remarks about Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other top admininistration officials.

Trump "has an alcoholic’s personality" and "operates [with] a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing," Wiles told the magazine.

"Some clinical psychologist that knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I’m going to say. But high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities," she told Vanity Fair.

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Vanity Fair also reported that Wiles said Vice President JD Vance had been "a conspiracy theorist for a decade" and that Vance's support for Trump — after previously criticizing him — was "sort of political."

The chief of staff said the piece was "disingenuously framed" in a statement posted to X.

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Members of Trump's cabinet and team rallied around Wiles after the interview was published.