The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Thursday it would expand eligibility for catastrophic health insurance plans with new hardship exemption guidance.
Applicants will be able to apply for catastrophic health coverage on Nov. 1, which will grant them access to lower monthly premiums and at least three primary care visits pre-deductible.
“Catastrophic coverage offers affordable health insurance for younger Americans and those facing hardship to ha...
Month: September 2025
Democrats haven’t won a positive campaign since Obama
Democrats haven’t won a national election without running against Trump since 2012.
This poses a problem for them: In 2028, Trump will be off the ballot. This span of more than a decade epitomizes the breadth of the Democrats’ dilemma: In three years, do they want to run on the past and what has worked, or positively on the future, which hasn’t succeeded for them in 16 years?
The last time Democrats won a national election running for someone, that someone was Barac...
Tinkerbell politics won’t save progressive Democrats
In J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” Tinkerbell, the little blond fairy you might picture from the 1953 Disney adaptation, can only live if others believe in her existence. In the play, she’s revived from near death by the audience’s applause. To my knowledge, no production has ever denied her that ovation. Luckily for her, it’s in the script — she survives to the final curtain whether the audience truly believes or not.
A variation of this “Tinkerbell effect,” the idea that be...
Schumer warns of growing chance of government shutdown
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned his Democratic colleagues in a letter Tuesday of the growing chance of a government shutdown, declaring that “Republicans are once again threatening to go-at-it-alone” by not negotiating with Democrats on a stopgap spending measure.
Schumer said the Trump administration is provoking a standoff over government funding by moving forward with a “pocket rescission” to claw back nearly $5 billion in federal funding for the S...
Congress returns to September government funding crunch
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Trump, GOP face tough choices for second tax bill
President Trump and Republican lawmakers passed their major tax-and-spending cut bill earlier this summer, faster than almost anyone else in Washington, D.C., was expecting.
Now, they're planning their second act.
The new law extended Republicans’ 2017 tax-rate reductions while making big cuts to healthcare and other social programs, adding $3.4 trillion to the national deficit through the next decade.
But there's still plenty of tax policy left for Con...
Bad news awaits Republicans returning to DC
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Remember back in July when Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) abruptly adjourned the House of Representatives for summer recess? The quick exit gave Republicans an escape from headlines about the Trump administration’s refusal to release files on Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex offender.
Now, Congress is about to return. And the Epste...
Ranking the Democratic contenders for president in 2028
Democrats are still licking their wounds from then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s defeat last November — and grappling with the implications of President Trump’s second term.
For the moment, they are essentially a leaderless party. But that will change in due course.
The 2028 presidential field looks wide open from this distance. But some prominent Democrats have already been making moves that seem plainly geared toward the next presidential cycle.
The H...