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Four big deadlines in 2025 that will put Congress and Trump on a collision course

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The nation’s debt ceiling will be reinstated on Jan. 2 after the threshold was raised by then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden in the summer of 2023 .

Congress will have an April 30 deadline to pass a Fiscal Year 2025 budget to avoid mandatory sequestration cuts of 1% to defense and nondefense funding levels as part of a 2023 debt-limit agreement.

The boosted subsidies for monthly health premiums were put in place by Democrats under President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan .

The pandemic-era enhanced financial help lifted the household income cap to qualify for subsidies above the 400% federal poverty line threshold.

With a 10-year price tag of $335 billion , Republicans will put them on the chopping block.