Interest in the Democratic presidential race intensifies as President Trump’s presidential approval rating sinks. His general presidential approval is now 11 points underwater in a new national survey of registered voters for The New York Times. His performance rating is also net-negative in every issue area, except for crime.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) had his moment in the sun during the long hot summer. Now it’s time for former Vice President Kamala Harris (D) to shi...
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Why healthcare spending was at the center of the US government shutdown battle
Democrats said they won’t vote for legislation unless Republicans reversed Medicaid cuts and extended subsidies
US government shutdown – live updates
The federal government shut down on Wednesday in part, due to a battle between Democrats and Republicans over healthcare spending.
Democrats had said that they would not vote for legislation to keep the government open unless Donald Trump and Republicans, who hold the majority in Congress, agreed to reverse...
Tensions expected as Trump meets with top Democrats and Republicans in effort to avoid shutdown
Trump and Republicans are unfazed at prospect of shutdown, and talks with Democrats are anticipated to be confrontational
US politics – latest updates
Democrats and Republicans are gearing up for a crunch White House meeting with Donald Trump in an 11th-hour bid to avert a potentially damaging federal government shutdown.
Monday’s gathering is aimed at reaching an agreement over funding the government and largely hinges on Democrat demands for an extensi...
The pandemic is over — let Biden’s health insurance handouts expire
Ronald Reagan once quipped that “nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.”
He could have been talking about the effort to extend — for a second time — former President Joe Biden’s Affordable Care Act-enhanced tax credits, a set of extremely generous federal health insurance subsidies intended to help Americans get through the COVID-19 crisis.
That crisis ended two years ago. Biden’s extra help, enacted by a Democratic-majority Congress in 2021 and ex...
Pam Bondi riles up the right; Kash Patel clashes with Dems
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If Trump wants to cut health spending, he’s defunding the wrong agency
The second Trump administration has made it a core mission to cut spending on public health programs. But ironically, one agency in its crosshairs is pivotal to cost-effectiveness research in health care delivery.
The Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, housed within the Department of Health and Human Services, is aimed at helping health care organizations and providers to deliver safe, high quality and equitable health care.
Despite this vital mission ...
GOP under pressure to extend Obamacare tax credits
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Jobs revisions ripple across Washington
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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...