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White House study touts HSA eligibility expansion amid health care funding fight

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The White House is touting efforts to expand eligibility for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) for millions of Americans, as Democrats' demands around health care access are front-and-center in the government funding fight.

A report shared exclusively with The Hill from the White House Council of Economic Advisers outlines how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Trump signed into law in July, is expected to expand access to HSAs for millions of Americans.

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Thune: Democrats need to ‘dial back’ demands to avoid shutdown

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says Congress could avoid a government shutdown next week if Democrats “dial back” their demands to add hundreds of billions of dollars in new health care spending to a short-term government funding bill.

“I’m a big believer that there’s always a way out,” Thune told The Associated Press i...

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Rove: Biggest shutdown loser would be ‘public trust in Washington’

News, Senate, Trump administration

GOP strategist Karl Rove weighed in on the looming government shutdown, saying the American public will lose trust in Washington if lawmakers continue to clash over policy issues, including health care.

"But no matter what, the biggest shutdown loser will likely be public trust in Washington writ large,” Rove wrote Wednesday in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal. “Voters see shutdowns as the result of gross incompetence by our leaders."

He pointed to Pe...

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Whole Hog Politics: Gaming out the politics of a shutdown 

News, Senate

Washington is almost as bad about abusing truisms as farmers and sports announcers.

And right now, the Washington equivalent of the black bands on a woolly bear caterpillar or “defense wins championships” is this old chestnut: “The party in control of Congress gets the blame for a government shutdown.”

It looks like we are about to find out about that.

The deal to fully fund the federal government reached in March expires at the end of the day Tuesday, a...

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Conservative leaders urge Trump to let healthcare tax credits expire

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Leaders from 35 conservative organizations are urging President Trump to allow Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire at the end of the year rather than extending or making them permanent.

The letter comes as Democrats in Congress are calling on Republicans to meet their demands on health care as a condition of funding the government beyond the Sept. 30 shutdown deadline. At the top of their list of asks is extending the ACA subsidies enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic t...

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Democrats dismiss Trump budget office threats as shutdown edges closer

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Democratic congressional leaders are dismissing a threat from the White House budget office to fire masses of federal workers during a government shutdown, saying they will not be intimidated into caving on their demands for talks on extending health care subsidies.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) brushed off the missive from Russell Vought, the head of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as...

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Half in Pelosi district say they supported her but ‘time for a change’: Poll

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At least half say they supported Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the past but think it’s time for new representation in California’s 11th Congressional District, according to a new poll.

Pelosi is facing a primary challenge from several Democrats, including progressive candidate Saikat Chakrabarti, who previously served as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) chief of staff.

An internal poll done for Chakrabarti’s campaign, which was conducted by Beacon Resear...

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All of these things are ‘killing’ small businesses — so why are they optimistic? 

News, Opinion

Wow, there are certainly a lot of things "killing" small businesses today, don't you think? 

The Wall Street Journal says that tariffs are "crushing" small businesses. The Center for America Progress says the same thing. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says that tariffs are having a "real and devastating impact on thousands of small businesses across the nation." MSNBC says that tariff uncertainty is “killing” small businesses too. A mother and daughter who started up a busi...

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