The Hill’s Evening Report — Vexing polls add to election spectacle

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Moskowitz swipes after Comer says to take medication: ‘We know who’s taking more’

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) traded personal swipes over who takes more medication after Moskowitz attacked Comer’s leadership of the committee.

The exchange came during an Oversight panel hearing titled “A Legacy of Incompetence: Consequences of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Policy Failures.”

Moskowitz used his time during the hearing, though, to criticize Comer, particularly the impeach...

Harris’s ‘Opportunity Society’ is in the shadow of LBJ’s War on Poverty

Vice President Kamala Harris has touted an economic vision for America called the “Opportunity Society.” The agenda harkens back to the days when presidents distinguished policies with slogans like the “New Deal” of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the “New Frontier” of John F. Kennedy.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty”; as such, it is appropriate to consider how the Harris plan for economic reform compares with that of an earlier Democratic...

England’s strained health care system should ring alarms in the US

The National Health Service in England, founded in 1948 to deliver health care directly to all in need following World War II, is in trouble.

Not only is it broke, but it is also broken, as the new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer just pointed out in response to a recent government study.

The waiting lines for care are prohibitive. A recent study revealed that 8 million people in the United Kingdom are waiting for their care, with 40 percent waiting for more than...

Trump, Harris give lawmakers whiplash with costly campaign promises

Former President Trump and Vice President Harris are offering a flurry of ideas on spending and taxes that are fueling concerns on Capitol Hill that there's no end in sight for huge annual deficits.

Trump’s reversal on capping state and local tax deductions, a key part of his tax reform legislation, is just the latest expensive proposal to emerge on the campaign trail.

Trump has proposed $8 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade, which he would offset with only $9...

US has worst healthcare system among wealthy nations, survey says

The United States healthcare system was deemed the worst overall in a new analysis of 10 similar nations by a leading health research nonprofit.  

"Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Healthy System," published by The Commonwealth Fund Thursday, looked at 70 healthcare systems in 10 wealthy nations including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the U.S. and compared them to one another.  

The nonprofit has conducted and released an inte...

Dems push ahead on ACA subsidies

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Key takeaways from the Senate’s second IVF clash

Senate Republicans on Tuesday for the second time blocked a Democratic bill that would have created a federal right to in-vitro fertilization and guaranteed insurance coverage of IVF and other fertility treatments. 

Republicans blocked the same bill in June, and the outcome this time around was never in doubt. Just like in June, the GOP decried it as a show vote. Only Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) voted with Democrats. 

House, Senate Democrats press leadership to quickly extend ObamaCare subsidies

House and Senate Democrats are pressing leadership to quickly pass legislation extending ObamaCare’s enhanced subsidies before they expire at the end of 2025. 

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) led a letter sent Wednesday to bipartisan leaders in both chambers urging them to act “at the next possible legislative opportunity.” It was signed by 41 Senate Democrats and 154 House Democrats.

The enhanced subsidies were first put in...

Kamala Harris will raise your taxes, no matter what she’s saying now

Have you ever found it weird how federal tax cuts always “expire,” whereas tax hikes last forever? It’s not by accident, it’s by design.

In looking at what the Biden-Harris administration has done in the past, and what she admits she wants to do in the future, there are only two certainties in life: death and Kamala Harris planning to raise the hell out of your taxes. 

There is a Rorschach test for every American on tax policy. Everyone views income in one of two wa...