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With two days left in their session, House Republicans prepare to vote on a health care plan.

So what is Speaker Mike Johnson planning?

I'm Steve Inskeep with Michelle Martin, and this is Up First from NPR News.

The president's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the White House in a Vanity Fair story.

What did she say about the administration and the people in it?

The enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans will expire at the end of this year.

Millions of Americans can expect their premiums to increase by thousands of dollars, and some plan to drop their coverage.

There is no sign of anything that Congress will do about it, although the House plans a vote today.

The resulting article in Vanity Fair illuminates a woman who rarely made headlines up to now.

She has acted as the president's facilitator.

Since before the inauguration, she's also been ducking out of White House meetings to tell a reporter how Trump's White House works.

Yeah, a program unveiled earlier this year is supposed to get nuclear reactors up and running just months from now.

And that's Up First for Wednesday, December 17th.

I'm Michelle Martin.

And I'm Steve Inskeep.

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