| For months, Juan Ciscomani has been warning of “massive” consequences and “real harm” for Arizonans if Congress fails to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. He even went so far to say that “doing nothing is not an option.”
Then, his Republican Party bosses came calling.
Last night, Ciscomani sided with GOP leadership and voted AGAINST a bipartisan proposal to extend the ACA subsidies. The day before, he even tried – and failed – to block the measure from coming to the House floor for a vote.
As the Arizona Republic points out, Ciscomani “relies heavily on campaign money from party leaders,” receiving “well over a half-million dollars” from his Republican party bosses in the first 9 months of 2025.
DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Juan Ciscomani has made clear he’s too much of a coward to stand up to the Republican Party bosses who fund his campaign – even when thousands of his own constituents will lose their health care. Arizonans will hold Ciscomani accountable this November.”
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:
Arizona Republic: How Arizona’s GOP House members voted on health-care subsidies
- Ciscomani… warned of “massive” consequences for Arizonans if the health subsidies were allowed to expire.
- “Doing nothing is not an option,” he wrote in a Dec. 4 news release.
- But as negotiations progressed, Ciscomani proved reluctant to use his leverage to advance the issue.
- Several members of Congress, including two Republicans, introduced discharge petitions that would force a vote on various proposals to extend the subsidies. Ciscomani didn’t sign on to any of them, even as dozens of his GOP colleagues did.
- In December, four Republicans joined Democrats to force a vote on the three-year extension proposal, undermining GOP leadership. Ciscomani did not sign on.
- Ciscomani voted against bringing the three-year extension proposal to a vote on the House floor on Jan. 7, and then, the next day, voted against the bill.
- Widely seen as one of the most vulnerable incumbents in Congress, Ciscomani relies heavily on campaign money from party leaders. He received well over a half-million dollars from national GOP fundraising committees in the first nine months of 2025, his campaign finance disclosures show.
- Expiration of the subsidies caused millions of Americans’ health insurance premiums to spike at the beginning of the year.
- Without the subsidies, the average annual premium for ACA marketplace enrollees is expected to roughly double, rising to $1,904 in 2026 from $888 in 2025, according to the nonpartisan health policy research group KFF.
- Enrollment in ACA plans doubled in Arizona after the tax credits went into effect in 2022.
- Hospital systems also are bracing for sweeping Medicaid cuts included in the Republican-led federal budget passed earlier this year, a reform that Senate Democrats calculated would cause about 193,000 Arizonans to lose their coverage.
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