Republicans delight in polls showing most Democrats don’t want President Biden to run for a second term.
Well, that leads to a question: How do they feel about Bernie? As in Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
A Reuters/Ipsos poll of Democrats taken last month found that the 81-year-old Sanders is running second for the 2024 presidential nomination. With 13 percent support, he is ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris (12 percent) and Transportation Secretary Pete ...
Month: March 2023
If Biden doesn’t run, would Bernie be the best alternative?
Republicans delight in polls showing most Democrats don’t want President Biden to run for a second term.
Well, that leads to a question: How do they feel about Bernie? As in Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
A Reuters/Ipsos poll of Democrats taken last month found that the 81-year-old Sanders is running second for the 2024 presidential nomination. With 13 percent support, he is ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris (12 percent) and Transportation Secretary Pete ...
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Biden’s budget directs billions to health programs
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White House budget leans into drug pricing, ObamaCare expansion
President Biden's budget proposal focuses heavily on expanding access to health care and lowering the cost of prescription drugs.
In an effort to extend the life of Medicare's hospital trust fund, the budget proposal would increase the number of drugs that can be negotiated, and allow those negotiations to begin sooner.
The plan builds off the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which granted Medicare the power to negotiate the prices of up to 20 drugs each year — though...
Biden says he’ll meet with McCarthy ‘anytime’ on budget
President Biden on Thursday said he was ready to meet again with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as soon as he makes public GOP priorities for the budget after Biden released his proposal for next fiscal year.
“The fact is, the Speaker of the House is a very conservative guy and he has an even more conservative group with him,” Biden said at a union hall in Philadelphia. “But, he and I met early on. He said, ‘What are we going to do about the budget?’ I said let’s make a dea...
House leaders say scope of health care hack ‘could be extraordinary’
Top leaders in the House said the scope of the data breach at DC Health Link, a program that administers health care plans for members of Congress and their staff, remains unknown, but the pair warned that the size of the impact “could be extraordinary.”
The update came in a letter Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) wrote on Wednesday to Mila Kofman, the executive director of DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority, requesting more ...
House leaders say scope of health care hack ‘could be extraordinary’
Top leaders in the House said the scope of the data breach at DC Health Link, a program that administers health care plans for members of Congress and their staff, remains unknown, but the pair warned that the size of the impact “could be extraordinary.”
The update came in a letter Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) wrote on Wednesday to Mila Kofman, the executive director of DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority, requesting more ...
Biden’s budget proposes tax hikes on wealthy to reduce deficit, shore up Medicare
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Biden’s budget proposes tax hikes on wealthy to reduce deficit, shore up Medicare
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