Erin Houchin said "We literally have a bill called the Affordable HOMES Act, and it addresses the cost of housing. They shut down the functioning of the government, preventing us from appropriating on the very good things that we talked about in the opening comments, meaning millionaires would be eligible to receive tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer-funded subsidies for their ObamaCare plans. This would give $350 billion in taxpayer bailouts not to the American people, but to big health insurance companies, all while they are receiving record profits. This incentivizes bad actors to manipulate individuals to sign up for coverage through the ACA marketplace, oftentimes without people even realizing that they had been enrolled. This is government waste, fraud, and abuse at its worst, and I am proud the House Republicans stood up against that." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJanuary 7, 2026

We literally have a bill called the Affordable HOMES Act, and it addresses the cost of housing. They shut down the functioning of the government, preventing us from appropriating on the very good things that we talked about in the opening comments, meaning millionaires would be eligible to receive tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer-funded subsidies for their ObamaCare plans. This would give $350 billion in taxpayer bailouts not to the American people, but to big health insurance companies, all while they are receiving record profits. This incentivizes bad actors to manipulate individuals to sign up for coverage through the ACA marketplace, oftentimes without people even realizing that they had been enrolled. This is government waste, fraud, and abuse at its worst, and I am proud the House Republicans stood up against that.

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Erin Houchin

Republican · Minnesota

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Editor's note · Context

Addressing the impact of government shutdowns on housing and healthcare funding.

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