Congressional Republicans are eying tax-exempt Health Savings Accounts as their preferred vehicle to deliver on President Trump's call to send taxpayer-funded health care subsidies directly to the consumers, instead of to insurers.

A health care proposal circulated by the White House in recent days is running into the reality of Republican divisions on the issue - a familiar struggle for a party that has been trying to scrap or overhaul the Affordable Care Act for the past 15 years.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist, is the clear head of the Democratic Party.