A majority of U.S. adults express a high level of concern about their health care costs increasing over the next year, according to a survey released Tuesday.
The Associated Press-NORC poll, conducted in mid-October, shows nearly 6 in 10 respondents are “extremely” or “very” concerned about rising health care costs this coming year — at 32 percent and 25 percent, respectively.
Another 26 percent said they’re “somewhat” concerned, 8 percent said they’re “not too co...
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Hakeem Jeffries says public pressure will force Congress to extend ACA subsidies
The Democratic House Minority Leader tells NPR Americans will pressure Congress to extend Obamacare subsidies as they realize their health care costs are going up.
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▪ Universities reject Trump’s funding offer
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Trump administration puts 1,400 nuclear staffers on furlough
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) furloughed more than three-quarters of its staff Monday as the government nears its fourth week of a shutdown.
A Department of Energy spokesperson told The Hill that 1,400 NNSA employees will be furloughed by the end of Monday, leaving fewer than 400 working at the agency, which is in charge of overseeing the nation’s nuclear stockpile.
"Due to the Democrat shutdown, approximately 1,400 NNSA federa...
Democrats block bill to end government shutdown for 11th time
The Senate on Monday voted against reopening the federal government for the 11th time, pushing the shutdown to the three-week mark with both sides at loggerheads and unable to break the impasse.
The chamber voted 50-43 on the House-passed continuing resolution to fund the government through late November. It needed 60 votes to pass.
Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Angus King (I-Maine) once again crossed party lines and sided with Republicans.&n...
Jeffries urges Trump to jump into spending talks: ‘Get off the golf course’
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that President Trump’s hands-off approach to the congressional budget impasse has prevented any deal to end the shutdown.
Jeffries urged Trump to dive more aggressively into the spending debate, warning that otherwise the government will never reopen.
"Donald Trump definitively needs to get involved,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol.
“He needs to get off the sidelines, get off the go...
Trump’s Australia meeting; FBI investigates hunting stand
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• Major website, app outage
• Australian leader visits White House
• FBI probes hunting stand near Air Force One zone
• Trump lays into ‘No Kings’
• Aerial protest footage
• FAA shortages trigge...
Reestablishing the dignity of work
The late Charlie Kirk warned that a dangerous disease was spreading through America — a rising generation adrift, disconnected from community, stuck in stalled mobility, and cut off from opportunity. His warning has only grown more urgent with time.
One of the central engines of this decline is ObamaCare. Passed in 2010, it allowed and even incentivized states to enroll able-bodied adults in Medicaid without work requirements. In doing so, Washington turned a focused safety ne...
Greene: GOP will lose House if it doesn’t tackle cost of living
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) ramped up her criticism of House Republican leadership, saying the GOP will lose the House if the cost of living does not decrease.
"I can’t see into the future, but I see Republicans losing the House if Americans are continuing to go paycheck-to-paycheck," she told Semafor in an interview published Monday.
"They’ll definitely be going into the midterms looking through the lens of their bank account.”
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Trump says ceasefire ‘still in place’ after Israel and Hamas exchange fire
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▪ AWS outage takes websites offline
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▪ Boat strike survivors to be repatriated
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