Rep. Summer Lee Statement on NO Vote on CR as Republicans Manufacture Healthcare Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. – SEPTEMBER 19, 2025 — Today, Congresswoman Summer L. Lee (PA-12) released the following statement after voting NO on House Republicans’ continuing resolution, which fails to extend ACA tax credits that would have kept healthcare more affordable for thousands of Western Pennsylvania families and millions more across the country:
“One of the biggest concerns I hear from folks across Western Pennsylvania is that the cost of healthcare is simply too high. Because of Republicans’ refusal to extend the enhanced the Affordable Care Act tax credits in their so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, they set the American people up to experience skyrocketing premium costs. Republicans had another chance to fix their manufactured crisis but yet again refused to give any relief to the working people. Now, premiums will spike, and millions will lose coverage when these credits lapse.”
Right now, 24,000 people in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District rely on Affordable Care Act tax credits to keep their insurance more affordable. Without extending the tax credits in this continuing resolution, families in PA-12 will see premiums jump by thousands of dollars a year at a time when healthcare is already unaffordable for too many people. A 60-year-old couple in PA-12 could see their costs rise by over $12,000. A working family of four could face an increase of more than $5,000.
Congresswoman Summer Lee serves on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Education and Workforce. Since taking office in January 2023, she has delivered historic levels of federal investment totaling over $2.4 Billion brought back to Western PA, including over $580 million for infrastructure, over $110 million for affordable transit, over $500 million to keep clean energy manufacturing at home in Pennsylvania, and over $55 million on clean energy efforts in and around schools to help keep our kids and communities safe. These investments will help improve Western Pennsylvania’s infrastructure and transit, ensure cleaner air and drinking water, lower housing costs, fund research institutions, fuel clean manufacturing, fund STEM innovation and entrepreneurship, boost workforce development, and create thousands of good paying union jobs. Lee and her team have also delivered casework and constituent services to over 3,000 constituents with issues ranging from helping our seniors and disabled community access Medicare and social security to helping folks secure housing and helping families with immigration support and passports.