Republicans are seizing on recent gaffes from President Biden, putting a spotlight on his slip-ups to attack Biden’s competency ahead of both the midterms and a 2024 presidential race.
The GOP in particular is using a moment last week when Biden asked whether a congresswoman who died in August was in attendance at the event where he was speaking.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) included the gaffe in a list of their top Democrat fails from last week, criticizi...
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Quietly, the Biden presidency has been hugely consequential
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Health Care — Planned Parenthood launches mobile abortion clinic
In a year of sports scandals, one involving competitive fishing may actually result in jail time. And it gave us the all-time exclamation: “We got weights in fish!”
In health news, Planned Parenthood is launching a mobile clinic in Illinois to bring abortion care to red state borders. An affiliated group is also out with a new ad targeting one vulnerable senator.
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LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus asks HHS to bolster protections for transgender health care
Story at a glance
- Members of Congress on Monday voiced their support for proposed changes to a section of the Affordable Care Act that would strengthen protections for transgender people seeking gender-affirming health care.
- The proposed changes, announced by the Health Department in July, would broaden the definition of sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
- More than 30 percent...
Republicans abandon efforts to repeal Obamacare
Republicans are abandoning efforts to campaign on repealing the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. NBC's Sahil Kapur reports on the decision not to pursue the issue.
Kevin McCarthy’s 2022 campaign agenda is all hat and no cattle
In September, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) issued “Commitment to America,” his 2022 campaign agenda. Predictably, the document blasts Democrats for having “no plan to fix all the problems they created.” McCarthy’s “Commitment to America,” however, fails to present its own plans to address those problems, relying instead on the Republican playbook of omission, distortion, and distraction.
On foreign policy, McCarthy cites “mistakes” by the Biden administratio...
We must do more to be equitable in our care for people with kidney disease
Diabetes is more than a life-threatening disease; it is a life-altering disease. It is a chronic medical condition that must be monitored and addressed daily to stay healthy. Diabetes is also the leading cause of kidney failure.As an African American man with diabetes, the disease affects me every day. I must take insulin every day to survive. I must deal with physical discomfort when I move and walk every day. Also, I must go in for dialysis treatments almost every other day. I am...
Young people overwhelmingly struggle to access birth control: study
Story at a glance
- Young people overwhelmingly struggle to access birth control, according to new national survey data from Advocates for Youth.
- Fifty-five percent of survey respondents said they experienced so many barriers that they were unable to start taking birth control on their preferred timeline.
- Of those respondents, 58 percent experienced a pregnancy scare, 20 percent got pregnant when they didn’t wa...
The government is not only spending trillions — it’s losing trillions
Lately, no matter if the federal government is spending taxpayer dollars or losing them, it doesn’t mess around with small change.
The government allocated $4.6 trillion just in COVID relief spending, tens of billions of which have been siphoned off by fraud. And when it comes to losing taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars, we’ve calculated that losses tallied at the Federal Reserve and Department of Education together will top $2 trillion. No telling how much it will co...
Shoring up LGBTQ health
This year’s global monkeypox outbreak has dredged up harsh recollections of the early days of the HIV epidemic, especially for the LGBTQ health activists who lived through that ugly period and its prejudices.
Sean Cahill, the director of health policy research for the Fenway Institute, an organization aimed at creating healthier lives for people in the LGBTQ community, can still recall the time before life-saving treatments for HIV became available.
“We certainly pe...