Budget Battles
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Medicaid Work Rules Approved for South Carolina
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Chart of the Day: Drug Price Plans Compared
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Watchdog Questions $6.7 Billion in Medicare Payments
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House Passes Pelosi’s Sweeping Drug Bill
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Shocking Health Care Statistic of the Day
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Ready to Rumble: How Pelosi’s Drug Bill Sets Up Dems for 2020
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Increasing Number of Americans Delay Medical Care Due to Cost: Gallup
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Medicaid Work Rules Approved for South Carolina
By Michael RaineyThe Trump administration on Thursday approved South Carolina’s request to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients. Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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Watchdog Questions $6.7 Billion in Medicare Payments
By Michael RaineyHealth insurance companies in the Medicare Advantage program have received billions in extra payments after making adjustments to their patient charts – changes that the Department of Health and...
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Congressional Negotiators Strike Spending Deal to Avoid a Pre-Christmas Shutdown
Congressional appropriators have reportedly reached a deal “in principle” to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year and avert a potential shutdown at the end of next week. The...
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Judge Blocks Trump Plan to Divert $3.6 Billion in Military Funds to Border Wall
A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration’s plan to divert $3.6 billion in military funds toward construction of barriers along the border with Mexico. District Court Judge...
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$738 Billion Defense Bill Authorizes Space Force and New Benefits for Federal Workers
By Michael RaineyIt looks like Space Force has earned its wings. The leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees announced late Monday an agreement on the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, which...
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The Terrible Cost of the War in Afghanistan
The war in Afghanistan is the longest armed conflict in U.S. history, and throughout the 18 years of fighting, U.S. officials have publicly said they were making progress. Yet a new investigative...
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The Fiscal Challenge for the Next Recession
The federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2019 was nearly $1 trillion. “In the next downturn, don’t be surprised if this number hits $2 trillion,” writes Nick Timiraos, The Wall Street Journal’s...
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Is Trump's $28 Billion Bailout Paying Farmers Too Much?
By Michael RaineyThe Trump administration is spending $28 billion to bail out farmers hurt by the president’s trade war with China – a huge sum that some experts say overestimates the economic losses inflicted by the...
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New Trump Food Stamp Rule Will Cut 700,000 from Program
By Michael RaineyThe White House said Wednesday that it has finalized a rule that will tighten work requirements for participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The new rule could result...
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Navy Awards Largest Shipbuilding Contract Ever
By Michael RaineyThe U.S. Navy awarded a contract Monday worth more than $22 billion to build nine new attack submarines. The agreement with General Dynamics Electric Boat includes an option for a 10 th sub, which...
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Putting a Price Tag on the Democratic Socialist Agenda
By Michael RaineyA number of policy proposals associated with the “democratic socialist” agenda of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are gaining ground in the Democratic Party and will likely play a role in...
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Here’s What’s at Stake in November: Tax Cuts, a Shutdown and Obamacare Repeal
By Michael RaineyA lot can change over the next three months, but right now Democrats look likely to win control of the House of Representatives. They currently hold the lead in both generic ballot polls and the...
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Trump’s New Immigration Plan: Protecting Taxpayers or Stoking Resentments?
The Trump administration is finalizing a proposal that would make it more difficult for legal immigrants to get citizenship or green cards if they have ever used public assistance programs including...
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Chart of the Day: Americans Using Government Programs
The federal welfare program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families delivers cash aid to about 2.5 million people, or less than 1 percent of the U.S. population — “far smaller than the share...
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Why Trump’s Border Wall Could Cost More Than $25 Billion
By Michael RaineyU.S. Customs and Border Protection has analyzed several types of barriers for use on the Southwestern border but has failed to estimate the costs of building those barriers in all relevant locations...
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