Budget Battles
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Trump Taps Hedge Fund Mogul for Treasury Secretary
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Trump Picks a New Attorney General Nominee After Gaetz Withdraws
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Musk and Ramaswamy Outline Plan to Slash Federal Workforce
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Trump Picks TV’s Dr. Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid
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Johnson Signals Plan for Looming Shutdown Deadline
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Trump Announces Another Shocking Cabinet Choice: RFK Jr. for HHS
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Trump’s Stunning Staffing Picks Set Off Political Shockwaves
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Trump Picks TV’s Dr. Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid
President-elect Donald Trump continued to fill the top levels of his administration on Tuesday, choosing Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of his presidential transition team and CEO of brokerage firm...
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Trump Drops Another Bombshell Cabinet Choice: RFK Jr. for HHS
Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are still grappling with how to handle a trio of shocking Cabinet nominations this week by President-elect Donald Trump. Even as questions continue to swirl...
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Trump Visits New Mexico Seeking to Boost ‘Credentials’ With Latinos
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday swung his campaign away from the seven key swing states to hold an event in Albuquerque, New Mexico — a state where Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris...
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Speaker Johnson Promises ‘Massive Reform’ of Healthcare if Trump Wins
House Speaker Mike Johnson said this week that Republicans are planning for a “massive reform” of the U.S. healthcare system and the Affordable Care Act if Donald Trump wins a second term as...
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Medicaid Enrollment Drops 7.5%, Expected to Fall Further
By Michael RaineyThe Medicaid rolls declined by 7.5% in fiscal year 2024, the nonpartisan policy research group KFF reported this week in its annual survey of state Medicaid directors. The decline is expected to...
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Medicare Advantage Paid Billions for Questionable Home Diagnoses: Report
By Michael RaineyFor-profit insurers in the Medicare Advantage program boosted payments from the federal government by $4.2 billion last year after adding diagnoses for patients during home visits, even though those...
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Biden and Harris Celebrate $1 Billion in Savings from New Medicare Price Caps
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday hailed a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services that said that the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act saved Medicare...
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Harris Calls for Medicare to Pay for Home Health Care
By Michael RaineyVice President Kamala Harris wants Medicare to start covering the cost of long-term, in-home care for elderly Americans. Appearing on ABC’s “The View” Tuesday morning, Harris outlined her proposal,...
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5 Quick Takeaways From the Vice Presidential Debate
Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate elicited some words that have rarely been used to describe U.S. political discourse in recent years: civil, cordial, nice. Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz...
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Voters Want to Hear More From Harris and Trump on Healthcare: Poll
Two-thirds of American adults say that healthcare issues are getting short shrift in the presidential campaign, according to a new poll from Gallup and West Health. Majorities across the political...
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CVS Says It Will Overhaul How It Prices Prescription Drugs
Drugstore giant CVS Health announced Tuesday that it is dramatically changing the way its pharmacies are reimbursed for prescription medications, shifting to a model that it says is simpler and more...
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Medicaid Expansion Opens Up Coverage for 600,000 in North Carolina
By Michael RaineyMore than 600,000 residents of North Carolina will gain access to health insurance starting today thanks to the expansion of the state’s Medicaid program. Since his election in 2016, Democratic Gov...
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Health Insurance 'No Longer Affordable' at Many Small Companies
By Michael RaineyWorkers at small firms pay $8,334 on average per year for family health insurance, according to the most recent KFF employer health benefit survey. About a quarter of such workers face costs of $12,...
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Trump Dredges Up the Possibility of Again Pursuing Obamacare Repeal
Former president Donald Trump indicated over the holiday weekend that he still has his sights set on a familiar old target: Obamacare. In a post on social media Saturday, Trump, the polling...
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Crunch Time for Israel and Ukraine Aid: Can Congress Get It Done?
By Michael RaineyWhile lawmakers may have postponed their battle over government funding until after the December holidays thanks to a stopgap funding bill, Congress still must address numerous serious issues in the...