For the last 236 years, the U.S. House of Representatives has begun each day of session with a prayer. The Senate does the same. Each body has a "nonsectarian, nonpartisan and nonpolitical" chaplain who "provides spiritual counseling and guidance" to its members.
The chaplains would do well to remind lawmakers of a truism: The moral test of any society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. President Trump has flooded the zone with failures in that regard. Congres...
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6 Senate Republicans who could hold up Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
Senate Republicans will take control of the party’s mammoth tax and domestic policy bill when they return to Washington on Monday — and seek to win over a diverse group of GOP lawmakers agitating for changes to the legislation.
Members are staring down a key four-week stretch to hammer out provisions of the bill, with their Fourth of July goal in sight and pressure mounting to complete President Trump’s top domestic agenda priority.
The bill narrowly passed ...
Johnson says 4.8 million Americans won’t lose Medicaid access ‘unless they choose to do so’
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) doubled down on his claim that there won't be Medicaid cuts in President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," despite projections that millions of low-income individuals would lose health insurance as a result of the bill.
Johnson, during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," pushed back on independent projections that the bill would lead to 4.8 million people who would lose coverage because of work requirements, saying they won't lose it "unless t...
Whole Hog Politics: Filibuster follies to hover around Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
On the menu: Trump approval bounces back; toastmasters; Dems argue over which way out of the wilderness; warning sign for Cuomo; his ship has come in
Dysfunction is both the cause and result of the most dangerous problem in Washington today: an imbalance of power between the branches.
President Trump is intent on mowing down the remaining restrictions on executive power, and a series of cases awaiting the Supreme Court could scythe throu...
Trump’s bill will feed the rich and starve the poor
These are the times that try people’s souls and tax their faith in human nature. The House of Representatives just passed President Trump’s big bad bill that awards huge tax breaks for rich people and big corporations and rips a gaping hole in the social safety net that protects the poor in bad economic times. The draconian proposal undermines the already shaky health, wealth and wellbeing of millions of struggling American families.
The MAGA endgame is to fatten u...
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Hawley stakes ground as chief GOP defender of Medicaid
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is staking out his spot as a populist defender of Medicaid in opposition to the steep cuts contained in the House-passed megabill to fund President Trump’s domestic agenda.
The senior senator from Missouri — who as the state's attorney general once signed on to a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Affordable Care Act — has made his position clear: He will not support a bill that cuts Medicaid benefits.
Hawley has long warned his party ...
Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ pits Senate GOP moderates against conservatives
Senate Republicans are deeply divided over President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which the House passed by a single vote last week, setting up a battle in the upper chamber between moderates and conservatives that is likely to drag on well into July.
GOP senators are vowing to rewrite the bill, but they’re still weeks away from putting together a package that can muster the 51 votes it needs to pass, according to GOP senators and aides.
The more senators change...
The Past and Future of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act
This Perspective discusses the underappreciated importance of how the existing Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been implemented and how implementation effects have varied across administrations and across states during its lifespan.
5 ways the ‘big, beautiful bill’ could impact Americans
Congressional Republicans are moving quickly to pass a mammoth tax and spending cuts package that could have a direct impact on millions of Americans and drastic consequences for the economy.
The 1,000-plus-page bill recently passed by the House would extend tax cuts set to expire as part of President Trump’s signature 2017 tax law, provisions aimed at nixing taxes on tips and overtime pay.
It also includes a host of reforms to programs like Medicaid and food ...