By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it’s the House’s turn to show what it can do.

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Speaker Mike Johnson is in a last-minute sprint to develop a Republican alternative, as his party refuses to extend tax subsidies for those who buy policies through the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, which are expiring at the end of the year. Those subsidies help lower the cost of coverage.

Johnson, R-La., huddled behind closed doors Friday morning — as he did days earlier this week — working to assemble a package for consideration as the House focuses the final days of its 2025 work on health care.

“We’re making final decisions,” said Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La. “We have a cou

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