House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) offer of a vote on extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies was not firm enough to move Democrats to end the government shutdown.
Thune told MSNBC on Wednesday that he was willing to guarantee a vote on ObamaCare subsidy extensions, though he said reforms to the program were needed and he could not assure the outcome of the process. He had made a similar proposal...
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Top Senate Republican says he can ‘guarantee’ a vote on key healthcare provision amid shutdown standoff – live
Senate majority leader there will be a vote on Obamacare subsidies, as Democrats have demanded, but ‘can’t guarantee it’s going to pass’
Mike Johnson said that Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic congresswoman from New York, said the “quiet part out loud” during a televised CNN town hall on Wednesday.
“They don’t know what they want to end the shutdown. They couldn’...
MAHA is nothing more than empty rhetoric leading health care on a dangerous course
Over my career, I have worked as a primary care physician, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and an executive at CVS Health. So by all means, yes, let’s Make America Healthy Again. But if that’s truly the goal, then the Trump administration’s approach, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a farce.
Despite lofty slogans, there is no clear or coherent health policy coming out of this administration. Instead, we are seeing a patchwork of marginal reforms paired with sweepin...
Greene: ‘There’s a lot of weak Republican men’
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene hit back at fellow Republicans over the backlash she’s faced for breaking with the party on high-profile issues ranging from its positions on the government shutdown to its opposition to efforts to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
“There’s a lot of weak Republican men, and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene told The Washington Post in an article published Tuesday. “So they always try to marginalize the strong...
Farah Griffin: ‘It’s a dark day when Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason’
"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said Thursday that it is “a dark day when Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason,” as the Georgia Republican has bucked her party on multiple issues amid the government shutdown.
“It’s a dark day when Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason, but like, you know what they say about a blind squirrel, so, I completely agree with her here,” Farah Griffin said on the ABC show in response to a clip of Greene talking about disagr...
Duffy threatens to fire air traffic controllers who skip work during shutdown
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday said he would fire air traffic controllers who are skipping work because of the government shutdown.
“If we have a continual small subset of controllers that don’t show up to work … they’re the problem children,” Duffy said, according to CNN.
“We need more controllers, but we need the best and the brightest, the dedicated controllers, and if we have some on our staff that aren’t dedicated like we need, we’re...
Greene says Johnson ‘should really bring the House back in session’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is adding pressure on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to call lawmakers back to Washington after he canceled this week's votes amid the government shutdown.
“I think he should really bring the House back in session for many reasons,” Greene told CNN in an interview Wednesday, while criticizing Johnson for stalling legislative business.
“Any serious Speaker of the House is going to build consensus within his conference behind a pla...
Trump says bill guaranteeing military pay during shutdown ‘probably will happen’
President Trump said Wednesday that a stand-alone bill to pay military service members during a government shutdown “probably will happen," contradicting comments from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) earlier in the day.
“Yeah, that probably will happen,” the president told a reporter when asked if he would encourage Congress to pass stand-alone legislation to pay troops.
“We have to worry about it yet. That's a long time. You know what one week is for me,...
Trump says bill guaranteeing military pay during shutdown ‘probably will happen’
President Trump said Wednesday that a stand-alone bill to pay military service members during a government shutdown “probably will happen," contradicting comments from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) earlier in the day.
“Yeah, that probably will happen,” the president told a reporter when asked if he would encourage Congress to pass stand-alone legislation to pay troops.
“We have to worry about it yet. That's a long time. You know what one week is for me,...
Greene doubles down on remarks about Affordable Care Act subsidies
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) doubled down on recent remarks about Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies amid a government shutdown battle centered around health care.
“The issues of the subsidies are real. It's not something that anybody can say is made up,” Greene told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill. “Also, people with regular or private plans, their premiums are looking to go up a median of 18 percent, that's brutal. I know a lot of small business owners, lik...