Top Democratic lawmakers are escalating a standoff with the White House over the administration's decision not to defend the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare.Several committee chairmen have warned the attorney gen...
Month: May 2019
The Health 202: Democrats demand the Trump administration explain why it won’t defend Obamacare
The investigation is just one of many ways House Democrats are probing the executive branch.
Top House Dems press Trump administration on Obamacare position
Five Democratic committee chairmen are demanding Trump administration officials turn over documents related to the brief filed by the Justice Department in March arguing that the health care law should be completely overturned
Kamala Harris’s claim that Medicare-for-all ‘doesn’t get rid of all insurance’
Harris (D-Calif.) argues there will still be a role for private insurance in a government-run system. But the bill she co-sponsors says it would be very limited.
In trying to protect American jobs, Trump is targeting the wrong visa programmes
The foreign work visa programme at the top of Donald Trump’s hit list is the least harmful to American workers.
H-4 visas, allocated to spouses of H-1B workers waiting in line for green cards to be processed, will likely be terminated by the Trump administration in t...
HUD proposes purging 55,000 kids and their undocumented family members from public housing
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) submitted a proposed rule to evict all undocumented immigrants from public housing to the federal register Friday, setting in motion the first step towards finalizing a plan that could impact tens of thousands of undocumented parents and their U.S. citizen children.
Under this proposed rule, HUD would be prohibited from “making financial assistance available to persons other than United States citizens.” The current r...
House votes to overturn Trump ObamaCare move
The House voted Thursday to overturn one of President Trump's key ObamaCare moves, advancing a bill that Democrats have framed as protecting people with pre-existing conditions.In a largely part...
With Insurance Bill Passage, House Democrats Begin Health Care Blitz
The House on Thursday passed legislation to roll back waivers on the coverage mandates under the Affordable Care Act, the first of a dozen health care bills coming.
Republicans who said they’d protect people with pre-existing conditions vote against bill to do that
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill that would block the Trump administration from granting states the leeway to skirt Obamacare rules —- a measure designed to ensure that patients with pre-existing conditions continue to receive affordable robust coverage — in a 236 to 183 vote. The bill is not expected to pass the GOP-controlled Senate, but even if it does, the president has threatened to veto the measure.
Every House Democrat and four Republicans vo...