Trump’s abortion stance draws bipartisan ire

Donald Trump, health care, News
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CVS drug plans will cover new OTC birth control pill for free

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CVS prescription drug plans will cover the first nonprescription birth control pill in the U.S., eliminating a potential cost barrier for many women. 

The company’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), CVS Caremark, said Opill will be added to its preventive services oral contraceptives list for April 2024, meaning it will be covered at no cost for many sponsors.  

Opill was available in store at CVS pharmacies starting April 1. CVS is the first major pharmacy benefi...

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Biden’s ‘tax cut’ rhetoric is really just code for benefit increases

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President Biden’s rhetoric about his new budget proposal suggests it is full of tax relief for working families. For example, one White House fact sheet is headlined “The President’s Budget Cuts Taxes for Working Families and Makes Big Corporations and the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share.”

Taking from the rich to give more to working (and even non-working) families is a familiar theme in Democrats’ income redistribution playbook. But the Biden administra...

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The Memo: Democratic hopes rise for a Florida surprise in November

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Democratic hopes are rising that they could spring an upset in Florida this November, despite the Sunshine State having turned a deeper shade of red in recent years.

Those hopes were given a major boost Monday by two seemingly contrasting court decisions on abortion.

On one hand, the Florida Supreme Court upheld an existing 15-week ban on terminating a pregnancy. On the other, the court allowed — by a much narrower majority — a ballot measure to go ahead in November ...

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Trump endorses Eric Hovde in Wisconsin Senate race 

Donald Trump, News

Former President Trump endorsed Republican Eric Hovde on Tuesday in the Wisconsin Senate race to unseat Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.). 

"I met Eric, and I've studied Eric and I — because we have to get it right and running against some very fine people, really. But I've looked it out, and they're going to have other opportunities. Eric, I am giving you my complete and total endorsement," Trump said during a rally in Green Bay, Wis.

“So go out and win. Go out ...

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Biden faces lawsuit over menthol ban delay

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It’s too easy to get the wrong idea about rural rage

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“White Rural Rage” is a book version of a clickbait article written by two people who don’t seem to engage with rural Americans regularly and who used other people’s data to come up with their conclusions about why rural Americans lean right. I am not an academic or journalist, like the two authors, but I am the only Democrat at the state level or higher among 32 counties in Northwest Iowa and someone who ran for Congress in 2018 in a district Trump won by 27 points in 2016 and...

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