Budget Battles
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Trump Ratchets Up His Tariff Threats
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Trump Picks Project 2025 Architect to Oversee Budget
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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 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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Nearly 6 in 10 Americans Encounter Problems with Heath Insurance: Report
By Serena T. Cody, The Fiscal TimesNearly six in 10 U.S. adults reported having at least one problem with their health insurance in the past year, according to a new analysis from the healthcare policy foundation KFF. KFF, a nonprofit...
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Conservatives’ Budget Plan Slashes Spending, Takes Aim at ‘Woke’ Policies
By Michael RaineyThe House Republican Study Committee released a 2024 budget plan Wednesday that would slash federal spending by $16.3 trillion and cut taxes by $5.1 trillion over a decade, while balancing the budget...
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Merck Sues to Block Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
Pharmaceutical giant Merck on Tuesday sued the U.S. government over the federal law enacted last year that allows Medicare to negotiate certain prescription drug prices with manufacturers. In the...
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Most Medicaid Disenrollments Have Been Procedural: Analysis
By Michael RaineyAs states start enforcing more restrictive pre-pandemic rules in their Medicaid programs, data collected by the health care foundation KFF shows considerable variation across states in the percentage...
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More Stringent Work Requirements for Medicaid Would Have ‘Negligible’ Effect on Employment: CBO
By Michael RaineyIn response to a request from Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), the Congressional Budget Office evaluated the budgetary effects of work requirements for the Medicaid program included in the Limit, Save...