Waiting on a Holiday Miracle on Health Care: Congress Tracker

With five working days until Affordable Care Act subsidies dry up, Democrats and moderate Republicans are banking on a holiday miracle.

Swing-district GOP lawmakers have introduced plan after plan to extend the enhanced tax credits, which conservatives oppose, past Dec. 31. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) faces two live discharge petitions — procedural acts of rebellion that allow rank-and-file members to force votes with 218 signatures — on the topic. But time is so short, and GOP leaders have been so resistant to an extension, that it looks less likely by the day.

Millions of Americans face skyrocketing ...