WASHINGTON — Health care did not play a big role in the election that’s sending President Trump back to the White House and giving Republicans control of Congress. That doesn’t mean Congress will avoid the topic next year.
Trump mostly avoided talking about health care during his 2024 campaign, a contrast from 2016, when he ran on the promise of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. But he did promise to “not cut one penny” from Medicare, and he said he’d give prominent vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now his pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, broad rein to reshape health care.
However, Trump did promise to extend individual tax cuts that Republicans passed in 2017 and that are set to expire at the end of next year. He also wants to further cut corporate tax rates.
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