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The tax changes proposed by House Democrats this week would lower taxes for most Americans, at least in the near term, while hitting top-earning households with sizable increases, according to...
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The House Ways and Means Committee voted on Friday to advance a measure expanding Medicare coverage to include vision, hearing and dental care. Under the plan, vision benefits would begin in 2022 and...
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The Biden administration on Thursday called for allowing Medicare to negotiate prices directly with drugmakers as part of a new plan to lower prescription drug prices.
The 29-page plan, issued by the...
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Social Security won’t be able to pay full benefits by 2034, one year earlier than projected last year, unless Congress acts to address the program’s finances, according the annual report released...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the Biden administration’s eviction moratorium, ruling 6-3 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exceeded its authority.
“The CDC has imposed a...
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As Democrats get down to negotiating and writing their budget reconciliation bill, The Washington Post’s Rachel Roubein notes that the legislation is poised to be the biggest health expansion since...
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday celebrated the House’s approval a day earlier of Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget framework — and downplayed some elements of the deal she struck to get all Democrats...
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House Democrats returned to the Capitol today looking to mend intraparty rifts and resolve a standoff that threatens to derail their economic agenda and scuttle President Biden’s proposed expansion...
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Centrist Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are reportedly advising — and encouraging — the nine moderate House Democrats who are threatening to derail the party’s $3.5 trillion budget...
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The number of American households that paid no federal income tax spiked dramatically last year, both as a result of job and wage losses driven by the Covid-19 pandemic and the government's response...
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Nancy Pelosi is in a predicament. She’s being squeezed on one side by moderate Democrats pressing for a quick stand-alone vote on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and on the other side...
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A group of centrist House Democrats is threatening to derail much of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, nine moderates said they will withhold support...
