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Budget Battles

  • The Real Problem of the Failed Obamacare Rollout

    By Josh Kraushaar, Next-Gov

    There's nothing that Democrats want more than to change the subject from Obamacare, despite DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's protestations otherwise. Congressional Democrats don't want to be...

  • House GOP Slams the Door on Immigration Reform

    By Eric Pianin

    With just eleven days remaining in the House legislative calendar this year, the window for any meaningful additional congressional action has been slammed shut. House Republican leaders say they won...

  • How Our Sprawling Nanny State Is Putting Parents Out of Work

    By ROBERT WEISSBERG, The Fiscal Times

    Everyone is aware of SNAP (food stamps), the mother of all food handouts, where over 47.8 million people participate at an annual cost of $81 billion. But awareness of the sprawling array of other...

  • Obamacare Mess Defines GOP 2014 Campaign Strategy

    By Steve Holland, Reuters

    Just a few short weeks ago, Republican elders could only hope that time would make voters forget about the government shutdown the party engineered in October. Now, with millions of Americans in an...

  • Obamacare Fallout: Insurer Drops Thousands of Docs

    By Staff, Reuters

    UnitedHealth Group dropped thousands of doctors from its networks in recent weeks, leaving many elderly patients unsure whether they need to switch plans to continue seeing their doctors, the Wall...