One year ago this month, President Biden in an executive order promised to safeguard access to gender-affirming health care for transgender Americans, charging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with promoting “expanded access” to care in every state.
Today, 20 states and counting have passed laws that heavily restrict or ban gender-affirming medical care, including 17 that have done so this year. Most of these laws regulate the administratio...
Month: June 2023
Obamacare site going down for maintenance
HealthCare.gov, the problem-plagued federal online site for signing up for insurance under Obamacare, will go down for extended maintenance on Friday night and overnight ahead of Saturday's deadline to have it working for most people, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said.
Sebelius: Obamacare website ‘on track’
Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says health care website improvements are "on track."
Boehner signs up for Obamacare
The top Republican leading the charge against Obamacare is now signed up for it and will take thousands of dollars in government support to help with its costs, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner confirmed to CNN.
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After all the problems with the Obamacare website, a failure to fail, as it were, helped John Boehner enroll.
Democrats are eyeing the wrong approach to Tuberville’s blanket hold
Senators are again blaming the Senate's rules for an impasse they created. According to reports, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), has placed a blanket hold on more than 200 military nominations — including five joint chiefs of staff members — to prevent the Senate from confirming them. Tuberville first placed his hold in February to protest the Department of Defense's abortion policy. Since then, efforts to negotiate an end to the impasse have been unsuccessful.
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Democrats are eyeing the wrong approach to Tuberville’s blanket hold
Senators are again blaming the Senate's rules for an impasse they created. According to reports, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), has placed a blanket hold on more than 200 military nominations — including five joint chiefs of staff members — to prevent the Senate from confirming them. Tuberville first placed his hold in February to protest the Department of Defense's abortion policy. Since then, efforts to negotiate an end to the impasse have been unsuccessful. ...
Biden hosts Obama for lunch at the White House
President Biden is set to host former President Obama at the White House for lunch on Tuesday, the White House announced.
The lunch comes as Biden has stepped up his fundraising efforts ahead of his first 2024 campaign finance report in July. He is set to fundraiser in Chevy Chase, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C., later on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Biden will travel to Chicago — Obama’s hometown — for a speech on the economy and for fundraisers.
The Biden campaign did...
White House goes all in on ‘Bidenomics’
President Biden is attempting to coin a term central to his economic message in 2024: “Bidenomics,” using the slogan to highlight the work his administration has done to turn the economy around while differentiating his agenda from Republicans.
The president is set to tout his own economic agenda to argue that building the economy from the bottom up and the middle out is working. He has often said he is tired of trickle-down economics, which was part of former President Reagan...
White House goes all in on ‘Bidenomics’
President Biden is attempting to coin a term central to his economic message in 2024: “Bidenomics,” using the slogan to highlight the work his administration has done to turn the economy around while differentiating his agenda from Republicans.
The president is set to tout his own economic agenda to argue that building the economy from the bottom up and the middle out is working. He has often said he is tired of trickle-down economics, which was part of former President Reagan...