Budget Battles
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White House Prepares to Ration Covid Vaccines: Report
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Rand Paul Blocks $40B Ukraine Aid Bill
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A Ray of Hope on Inflation?
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Trump’s ‘Temporary’ Tax Rules May Stick Around
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Congress Boosts Ukraine Aid to $40 Billion as Dems Delink Covid Money
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The Strongest Jobs Streak Since 1939
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The U.S. Hits a Tragic Covid Milestone
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As Congress Stalls on Covid Funding, White House Prepares to Ration Vaccines: Report
With billions of dollars in additional pandemic funding stalled in Congress — and with Republicans reportedly raising questions about the Biden administration’s vaccine strategy and the wisdom of...
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World Leaders Pledge $3.1 Billion for Global Covid Fight as US Domestic Funding Stalls
By Michael RaineyU.S. and foreign leaders attending the Biden administration’s global Covid-19 summit have pledged another $3.1 billion to fund the global fight against the virus, the White House said Thursday...
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White House Prepares for Wave of 100M Covid Infections Later This Year: Report
The White House is preparing for a cold-weather Covid wave later this year that could infect as many as 100 million Americans if Congress doesn’t provide additional pandemic funding, The Hill’s Peter...
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US Covid Death Toll Tops 1 Millon as WHO Says True Global Toll Is 15 Million
The Covid death toll in the United States has topped 1 million, according to NBC News , which calls the number “a once unthinkable scale of loss” that’s equivalent to the population of San Jose,...
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Poll of the Day: Biden’s Approval Rating on Pandemic Edges Higher
Just over half of Americans (51%) in a new Washington Post/ABC News survey said they approve of the way President Biden is handing the coronavirus pandemic, up from 44% as of February but still below...
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Medicare Advantage Plans Sometimes Deny Medically Necessary Care: Report
By Michael RaineyPrivate Medicare Advantage insurance plans are growing rapidly in popularity and are expected to cover a majority of Medicare beneficiaries within just a few years, but according to a report by a...
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White House Pushes Wider Use of Covid Treatment Paxlovid
By Michael RaineyThe Biden administration has secured the purchase of 20 million doses of Paxlovid, a treatment for Covid-19, and plans to make the drug more available around the country. Approved in December, Pfizer...
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234,000 Covid Deaths Could Have Been Prevented: Analysis
A new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that since June 2021, when vaccines were widely available to American adults, about 234,000 deaths could have been prevented if those...
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How Covid Altered the Fiscal Balance Between the U.S. Government and States
The Covid-19 pandemic “dramatically disrupted” the usual flow of funds between the federal government and states, according to a new report from the Rockefeller Institute of Government, which details...
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Many Cancer Patients on Medicare Skip Filling High-Priced Prescriptions: Study
High drug prices often lead Americans on Medicare to hold off on filling their prescriptions, even for threatening diseases such as cancer, a study in the journal Health Affairs suggests. The...
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Biden Promotes Infrastructure Law, With an Eye Toward Election Day
President Joe Biden is traveling coast to coast this week to tout the bipartisan infrastructure bill he signed into law last November. Biden hit Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Tuesday, where the state’...
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Dems Look to Score Points Using Rick Scott’s Agenda for the GOP
Back in February, Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott released a 11-point policy agenda for the GOP that stirred some controversy by, among other things, calling for all Americans to have some “skin...
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Biden Administration Extends Covid-19 Public Health Emergency
The Biden administration on Wednesday extended the Covid-19 public health emergency that had been due to expire on April 16. The 90-day extension , announced by the Department of Health and Human...
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New Coronavirus Czar: $10 Billion Is Just a ‘Down Payment’ for Pandemic Funding
Dr. Ashish Jha took over Monday as the White House coronavirus response coordinator, replacing Jeff Zients. Jha, appointed by President Biden last month, started his tenure by making the rounds of...
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Covid Vaccinations Have Saved 2.2 Million US Lives: Report
By Michael RaineyAs the U.S. closes in on 1 million deaths from Covid-19, a new analysis finds that the death toll would have been far higher in the absence of vaccines. A report from The Commonwealth Fund, a non-...