ALBANY, New York — Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan wants to build a bench of patriot-leaders — and is planning to raise millions of dollars to do it. The two-term House lawmaker is launching a political action committee today to elect candidates with public service backgrounds, including those with experience in the military, teaching or as … Read more
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries laid out a new ultimatum for a government funding deal Wednesday, telling reporters Wednesday that an agreement addressing health care has to be “ironclad and in legislation” to win Democratic support ahead of next week’s shutdown deadline. Jeffries’ position escalates the odds that agencies could shutter on at midnight Sept. … Read more
President Donald Trump is deeply frustrated with the public health establishment. Source link
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer placed onus on Republicans to avert a government shutdown Wednesday and urged President Donald Trump to meet with Democrats to negotiate ahead of the looming Tuesday deadline. In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Schumer said he was hopeful the Senate could achieve a stopgap bill by next week but … Read more
Republican leaders on Capitol Hill were already looking at a messy political battle over the looming expiration of billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies. Then the anti-abortion advocates showed up. With a possible government shutdown less than a week away, Democrats’ big ask is that Republicans agree to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which … Read more
Any resolution to the shutdown standoff now gripping Capitol Hill will have to involve senators from both parties locking arms. It would probably help if the two top party leaders in the Senate would start talking to each other first. Instead, a frosty pall has settled over the working relationship between Majority Leader John Thune … Read more
House centrists are discussing the outlines of a possible compromise to extend Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies in hopes of jump-starting stalled talks over the soon-to-expire tax credits that have also emerged as a key fault line in the brewing government shutdown battle. The bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus has privately broached whether an income cap … Read more
Nexstar Media Group will continue to preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on its ABC affiliates, the company said Tuesday, effectively pulling the late-night show from dozens of local stations as the comedian prepares to make his return to the airwaves. The company noted it would “monitor” the show as it returns to ABC, but said its … Read more
Loyalists to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement had worried that a long-awaited autism announcement from the agency and the White House wouldn’t blame vaccines for the uptick in cases. Source link
House Democrats are going on the offense with tariffs and shutdown politics in swing districts, dropping TV ads against 10 vulnerable Republicans as Congress barrels toward an October government shutdown. House Majority Forward, a nonprofit aligned with House Democratic leadership, is spending $3 million on broadcast TV and digital ads attacking Republicans on cost-of-living increases … Read more