Conservatives on Capitol Hill are in store for painful calculations over more spending to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies, a contentious subject that GOP leaders begrudgingly concede they’ll ultimately need to address to pass long-term government funding.

It’s a tough pill to swallow for fiscal hawks, who described it to the Washington Examiner as hypocritical of the party’s supposed desires to rein in out-of-control spending and the latest example of Republicans misusing their control over Washington.