After Voting For Multiple Funding Bills That Did Not Extend the Tax Credits Last Year, the PA Congressmen Supported A Renewal

January 8, 2026

PENNSYLVANIA — Following months of action from their constituents, Congressmen Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07) and Rob Bresnahan (PA-08) today voted to restore critical health care tax credits for three years.

“I am a homecare worker who relies on the ACA. After working 80 hours/week, there is little time for much else. But these last few months, along with many other Lehigh Valley community members, I spent my little free time sharing my ACA story to fight for a return of these tax credits,” said Lynn Weider, a homecare worker from Allentown. “I am grateful that our tireless advocacy led to our congressman, Ryan Mackenzie, supporting the renewal of these tax credits for his 21,000 constituents like me that rely on them for life-saving care.”

The congressmen failed to take action on this pressing issue for most of 2025, voting twice on funding packages that did not include an extension of the expiring tax credits and letting them expire. Constituents across the two districts worked for months to get the congressmen to stand up for the care of their combined 46,000 constituents who benefit from the tax credits. They participated in local actions, sharing their stories with local and national media, and fought for a meeting with their representative’s district staff until, just days before Congress recessed for the holiday, Reps. Mackenzie and Bresnahan finally signed onto the Democrats’ discharge petition to renew the tax credits for three years.

As Reps. Mackenzie and Bresnahan were eager to participate in Senate negotiations on the tax credits to ensure a "health care proposal that can pass and be signed into law”, Affordable Pennsylvania urges the congressmen to call on Senate Republicans to bring this bill for a vote to prevent the “real harm” these “drastic premium spikes” will bring for their constituents. Affordable Pennsylvania further calls on the Congressmen to restore Medicaid funding that they voted to cut last summer in the Republican Tax Law and fight for lower costs for Pennsylvanians across the board.

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