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Month: August 2024
GOP pleads with Trump to control impulses, focus on policy
Republicans are pleading with former President Trump to focus on policy after he has spent the first few weeks against Vice President Harris’s surging campaign indulging what they see as his worst impulses.
Since Harris replaced President Biden as the Democratic nominee in late July, Trump has exasperated some of his allies with a lack of discipline in his campaign messaging.
In that time, he has attacked Harris over her biracial heritage, blasted ...
Harris Says Trump Will Repeal Obamacare. Trump Now Claims He’ll Make It ‘Better.’
The popularity of the Affordable Care Act has changed the political strategy of Republicans, who are no longer campaigning to end the law.
Tim Walz pick excites hopes of taking US healthcare beyond Obamacare era
Advocates are enthused by Harris’s running mate, who as Minnesota governor called healthcare a ‘basic human right’
When Kamala Harris picked the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, as veep for the Democratic presidential ticket, advocates for healthcare reform felt a jolt of electricity.
Here, they saw a man who proclaimed healthcare a “basic human right”, reformed medical debt collections, and who laid the groundwork for expanded government insurance and denied corporate health insu...
Amicable Walz learned hardball politics in the House
In tapping Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate, Vice President Harris chose an affable figure with dad-joke zeal and "Minnesota nice" energy.
But Walz's time in the House reveals another dimension — one of a shrewd tactician able to survive rough political waters when other Democrats were sinking, and play hardball to achieve his ambitions when the moment demands.
Those attributes surfaced not only in the act of taking tactful votes that he...
Sanders says Harris should be ‘very proud’ of Biden administration record
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Sunday that Vice President Harris should be "very proud" of the administration's record over the past few years and brushed off concerns about reversals in some of her policy positions.
“She should be very proud of the record of the Biden/Harris administration in taking on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, lowering the cost of prescription drugs, and creating millions of jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure,” Sanders said ...
15 state AGs sue Biden administration over ObamaCare coverage for ‘Dreamers’
A coalition of 15 state attorneys general are suing the Biden administration over its plan to expand Affordable Care Act (ACA) health coverage to immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
The states, led by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R), want to stop the administration’s plan from taking effect Nov. 1.
Under the rule, active recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will be eligible to enroll in a taxpayer-subsidize...
Republican notions of ‘progressive’ and ‘populist’ don’t match reality
When it comes to fighting for real American values, progressives have been leading the charge since day one.
Who got women the right to vote? Progressives. Who stood up to end segregation? Progressives. And who created the lifelines of Social Security and Medicare? You guessed it — progressives.
But today, we've got venture capitalist Republicans masquerading as working-class heroes, dragging the word progressive through the mud.
Don't be fooled by th...
15 states sue to block Biden’s effort to help migrants in US illegally get health coverage
Fifteen states have sued the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act’s health insurance
Trump team seeks to pressure Harris over media appearances
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