Campaign confirms Biden still supports the Hyde amendment, a law that bars the government from paying for abortion services
Reproductive rights groups have criticized the US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for supporting an abortion restriction called the Hyde amendment.
The 40-year-old law bars the US government from paying for abortion services, even when recommended by doctors. The measure has the practical effect of excluding abortion services from Medicaid, a p...
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Biden still supports Hyde Amendment barring federal funding for abortion, campaign says
Last month, a volunteer with the American Civil Liberties Union cornered former Vice President Joe Biden on a rope line at a campaign event and pressed him for an answer to a simple question: Would he commit to repealing the Hyde Amendment?
As is often the case in spontaneous rope line interactions, Biden’s response was a bit meandering. Nevertheless, the takeaway from Biden’s exchange seemed clear. “It can’t stay,” he said, before quickly moving on to ...
Biden still supports Hyde Amendment barring federal funding for abortion, campaign says
Last month, a volunteer with the American Civil Liberties Union cornered former Vice President Joe Biden on a rope line at a campaign event and pressed him for an answer to a simple question: Would he commit to repealing the Hyde Amendment?
As is often the case in spontaneous rope line interactions, Biden’s response was a bit meandering. Nevertheless, the takeaway from Biden’s exchange seemed clear. “It can’t stay,” he said, before quickly moving on to ...
Trump cancels key services for unaccompanied child migrants – live
Officials say language classes and recreation programs for immigrant children staying in federal shelters ‘not directly necessary’
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The Trump administration is canceling English classes, legal aid and recreational programs for unaccompanied immigrant minors staying in federal shelters, the Washington Post reports.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement is wit...
House panel sets Medicare for all hearing for next week
The House Ways & Means Committee will hold a hearing next week on "Medicare for all," the proposal that would shift the U.S. to a single-payer health care system.The June 12 hearing will mark the first time the...
187 Republicans vote against the Dream and Promise Act
Eighteen years after the original Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act, was introduced, the House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Dream and Promise Act — a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for nearly 2.1 million immigrants brought to the United States by their parents as children.
The bill passed with a 237-187 vote. The vote was mostly along party lines, and only seven Republicans voted in favor of the bill.
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Prices of the most common prescription drugs nearly doubled in less than a decade
The one issue most Americans can agree on is that the price of prescription drugs are out of control.
An analysis from researchers at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, found that 48 out of 4...
Democrats make Medicaid center of Kentucky governor fight
Kentucky Democrats want to make the state's 2019 gubernatorial race ground zero in the battle over Medicaid expansion and work requirements.
Full Delaney: ‘Don’t think’ there should be donor standard for Democratic debate
Democratic presidential candidate former Rep. John Delaney joins MTP Daily to discuss getting booed for saying Medicare for All is “not good policy” and his path to the nomination.
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Outside group knocks McConnell over health care in TV ad
A left-leaning outside group on Monday is launching a TV ad knocking Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) over his efforts to repeal ObamaCare.The Ditch Mitch Fund, a group focused on trying to unseat McConnell...