GOP pressure is mounting on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to extend expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits, as a number of rank-and-file Republicans push leaders to prevent the popular subsidies from expiring at the end of the year.
Eleven GOP lawmakers have endorsed legislation extending the benefits for an additional year, punting the issue beyond the midterm elections. Most of them are vulnerable front-liners facing tough reelection contests — and wary of the ...
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GOP, Democrats ramp up blame game ahead of shutdown deadline
Lawmakers are laying the groundwork for making sure the other party gets the blame in the event of a government shutdown at the end of the month.
As both sides work out a game plan for funding the government before a Sept. 30 deadline, lawmakers have increasingly been trading insults and pointing fingers over who would be at fault if the lights go out.
In remarks from the Senate floor Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sounded the alarm over t...
Distrust clouds Democratic strategy amid shutdown battle with GOP
House Democrats are hanging their hopes on party leaders in the Senate to block any government spending bill crafted solely by the GOP, but there’s plenty of distrust between the chambers hovering over the debate.
Behind House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), House Democrats were virtually united against a Republican spending bill in March, only to watch angrily as Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and a small group of upper chamber Democrats backed t...
RFK Jr. says HHS expanding eligibility to catastrophic health insurance plans
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Thursday it would expand eligibility for catastrophic health insurance plans with new hardship exemption guidance.
Applicants will be able to apply for catastrophic health coverage on Nov. 1, which will grant them access to lower monthly premiums and at least three primary care visits pre-deductible.
“Catastrophic coverage offers affordable health insurance for younger Americans and those facing hardship to ha...
Democrats haven’t won a positive campaign since Obama
Democrats haven’t won a national election without running against Trump since 2012.
This poses a problem for them: In 2028, Trump will be off the ballot. This span of more than a decade epitomizes the breadth of the Democrats’ dilemma: In three years, do they want to run on the past and what has worked, or positively on the future, which hasn’t succeeded for them in 16 years?
The last time Democrats won a national election running for someone, that someone was Barac...
Tinkerbell politics won’t save progressive Democrats
In J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” Tinkerbell, the little blond fairy you might picture from the 1953 Disney adaptation, can only live if others believe in her existence. In the play, she’s revived from near death by the audience’s applause. To my knowledge, no production has ever denied her that ovation. Luckily for her, it’s in the script — she survives to the final curtain whether the audience truly believes or not.
A variation of this “Tinkerbell effect,” the idea that be...
Schumer warns of growing chance of government shutdown
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned his Democratic colleagues in a letter Tuesday of the growing chance of a government shutdown, declaring that “Republicans are once again threatening to go-at-it-alone” by not negotiating with Democrats on a stopgap spending measure.
Schumer said the Trump administration is provoking a standoff over government funding by moving forward with a “pocket rescission” to claw back nearly $5 billion in federal funding for the S...
Congress returns to September government funding crunch
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Trump, GOP face tough choices for second tax bill
President Trump and Republican lawmakers passed their major tax-and-spending cut bill earlier this summer, faster than almost anyone else in Washington, D.C., was expecting.
Now, they're planning their second act.
The new law extended Republicans’ 2017 tax-rate reductions while making big cuts to healthcare and other social programs, adding $3.4 trillion to the national deficit through the next decade.
But there's still plenty of tax policy left for Con...
Bad news awaits Republicans returning to DC
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Remember back in July when Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) abruptly adjourned the House of Representatives for summer recess? The quick exit gave Republicans an escape from headlines about the Trump administration’s refusal to release files on Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex offender.
Now, Congress is about to return. And the Epste...