Trump, GOP Head Into Thanksgiving Without Obamacare Premium Fix

President Donald Trump decamped to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida late Tuesday for the Thanksgiving holiday with any effort to control spiking health care premiums — a key issue for Republicans whose economic appeal to voters has waned since last year’s election — still very much in flux.

Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, distanced himself from a White House trial balloon floated earlier this week that would have seen the extension of expiring Obamacare subsidies in exchange for new eligibility limits and other concessions.

“Somebody said I want to extend them for two years — I don’t ...