Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are reframing health care as a culture-war issue that they’ve relied on before: restricting transgender care for children.
How making the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a holiday became perhaps the defining issue in the race between two NC ...
House lawmakers narrowly approved a bill Wednesday to criminalize transgender treatments such as surgeries and hormonal ...
On January 1, some 22 million Americans will face massive increases in their health insurance premiums, as enhanced tax credits for policies under the Affordable Care Act expire. According to KFF, a ...
Maine Senators Collins and King faced policy deadlock as efforts to extend Obamacare subsidies failed in the Senate, risking ...
Senate remains divided over Obamacare premiums and abortion while millions of Americans stare down a financial deadline ...
President Donald Trump’s recent comments about renaming the Republican Party after him raises the question of whether this might be the spark that ignites a serious reconsideration of just what the ...
It should be obvious even to the most obtuse Republican in the Senate that the Democrats will eventually regain another governing trifecta in Washington and will shortly thereafter “nuke” the ...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent encouraged Republicans to eliminate the filibuster in a Washington Post op-ed on Sunday. "For generations, the filibuster has been romanticized as the Senate's ...
The most extended government shutdown in U.S. history has revived a familiar argument: The Senate’s filibuster is to blame for congressional paralysis. It’s a compelling narrative with a convenient ...
Some argue the filibuster is undemocratic because it is not in the Constitution. Neither is the Senate’s cloture rule, nor the party system, nor the committee structure, and yet the Framers expected ...
In 2013, the then-­majority Democrats in the Senate, under the leadership of Sen. Harry Reid, changed U.S. Senate rules regarding the filibuster to eliminate it, but only for approving presidential ...