Watch live: Biden delivers remarks on health care costs from Virginia Beach

President Biden on Tuesday afternoon will speak in Virginia Beach, Va., on the subject of health care costs. The president is expected to use the event as an opportunity to contrast his administration’s goals for health care policy with those that may come from the Republican-led House.

Although Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has, like Biden, stated that Social Security and Medicare will be exempt from consideration for cuts in upcoming budget negotiations, the White Ho...

Biden to go on offensive against Republicans over budget fight in Virginia speech

President Biden is set to go in on congressional Republicans on Tuesday while giving a speech in Virginia Beach where he is expected to blast the lawmakers for seeking cuts to programs like Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Legislators are in the midst of negotiating a federal budget and seeking to avoid a potential default on the national debt. The White House has called for the debt ceiling to be raised and Biden is refusing to negotiate over this matter, a stance th...

Get health care coverage through Medicaid? You may be booted from program

Story at a glance
  • Roughly 84 million people are covered by the government-sponsored program Medicaid, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020.
  • At the beginning of the pandemic, the federal government prohibited states from kicking people off Medicaid, even if they were no longer eligible.
  • Now states will begin checking everyone's eligibility for Medicaid for the first time in three years...

How Jimmy Carter became a post-White House progressive hero

Jimmy Carter’s post-presidential life outshined the time he spent at the White House and won him the praise of the progressive left — a more dominant part of the Democratic Party 42 years after the end of his presidency.

Carter, 98, is a figure beloved by many Democrats in 2023 despite the difficulties of his administration. He’s respected for creating a footprint as a global humanitarian and peacebuilder in a bitterly divided world. 

To liberals, his ...