Congressional Republicans are being dragged back into a 2017 debate over Obamacare, reviving a bitter GOP divide that handed President Donald Trump an early black mark on healthcare.

Republicans are poised to let Obamacare’s enhanced subsidies lapse at the end of the year, viewing them as an overly generous benefit with insufficient guardrails against fraud and abuse. Less clear is how lawmakers plan to replace them, with GOP ideas ranging from a straight extension, as Democrats have been demanding, to more conservative proposals that would place the money into health savings accounts.

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