Booker Slams Republicans for Refusing to Extend ACA Tax Credits, Doubling Premiums for Over 20 Million Americans: “I’m going to tell you right now, we are going to fight for you”

In case you missed it, after Senate Republicans failed to extend the ACA tax credits and voted to increase premiums for over 20 million Americans, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is continuing to stand up to President Trump and fight for an affordable health care system for American families. In national, local, and radio interviews, digital videos, and conversations with his constituents, Booker is making it clear that the fight for affordable health care is not over. Booker promised he would continue to work to lower costs and find solutions after Trump and Republicans gutted the country's health care system, "Health care in America is already broken. We should be working to fix it, to expand coverage, to lower costs. But instead of doing something more to help, they're about to pull the rug out for millions of Americans, kneecapping hospitals and clinics, making it harder for the average American to access the care that they need."

MS NOW: Ana Cabrera Reports

December 11, 2025

Sen. Booker: "I'm really stunned that the Republican party has decided to declare war on Americans' health security and health care. Remember they are doing two things that will take effect next year. They are not renewing these subsidies which will cause tens of millions of people to see either their health care lost completely or massive premium increases. That's at the beginning of the year. And remember, they took a trillion dollars out of Medicaid which will mean again, millions and millions of Americans losing health care."

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December 12, 2025

Sen. Booker: "It is going to cause mayhem in our hospital emergency rooms as people turn to them for their primary care. I've had hospital systems tell me, point blank, we are going to have to cut many of the services we provide to the community, so it has a cascading effect in our state. But a number of congressional republicans, House republicans, are openly breaking with the president and saying, we want to extend these cuts."

@SenBooker

December 11, 2025

Sen Booker: "Literally, lives are at stake. On the Senate floor, Republicans will hold the destiny of tens of millions of Americans in their hands. And what are they going to do? They're going to drive their health care costs up by refusing to pass a simple extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidy. And as a result of that, millions will lose health care and millions more will see their health care costs go up."

@SenBooker

December 10, 2025

Sen. Booker: "What's frustrating to me is we see this White House in the last ten months find a lot of money to give tax cuts to the wealthiest of the wealthy, but suddenly say that they can't afford keeping working people and entrepreneurs like yourself with health care that's affordable."

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December 13, 2025

Sen. Booker: "The biggest thing I'm focused on right now is fighting the Trump Administration from continuing to do things that are raising costs on people in my state and across the nation. For a man that said he was going to drive costs down, he has literally done just the opposite. If you live in New Jersey, our energy costs under his leadership have gone up 20 percent, grocery costs, everything from coffee to beef, have skyrocketed. And then of course what we're about to see in our country, unless we can stop congressional republicans and the president, is the biggest kneecapping of health care in my lifetime."

See also:

12/11: Booker Statement on Congressional Republicans Refusal to Extend ACA Subsidies

11/12: Booker Statement on Passage of Government Funding Bill & Health Care Fight Ahead: "The Democratic Party Needs Change"

10/24: Booker Continues Fight to Lower Health Care Costs for New Jerseyans During Trump Shutdown: "This is not about politics. This is about people"

10/23: Booker Hosts Virtual Town Hall with NJ Food Banks Amid Trump's Withholding of SNAP Funding

10/15: Booker's Shutdown Conversation with Influencer Kate Barr

10/15: Senator Booker breaks down the facts about the government shutdown and debunks common myths in a game of true or false.

10/11: My office is taking calls every day about the effects of Trump's shutdown

10/10: As Trump Shutdown Drags On, Booker Demands Action to Stop Looming Health Care Crisis: "We have to come together to lower health care costs for the American people"

10/8: Booker, Van Hollen, Colleagues Urge Major Utility Companies Against Imposing Penalties, Service Shutoffs on Federal Workers Amid Shutdown

10/7: Booker, Whitehouse, Colleagues File Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Reject Yet Another GOP Effort to Flood Politics with Corporate and Mega-Donor Cash

10/6: Booker on Trump Shutdown: "We have to stand up and fight right now"