May 07 Price defends cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid By Darlene Superville, Associated Press Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price says cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid would give states freedom to tailor the program to fit their needs. Continue reading
May 07 Republicans sold their health plan as a win for freedom. Voters are wary By Max Blau and Casey Ross, STAT The GOP hailed the American Health Care Act as a win for consumers, who may get more choices in insurance. But even some Trump voters are wary. Continue reading
May 06 Watch 4:56 Will Republicans’ health care plan bring political fallout? By PBS News Hour The debate over the American Health Care Act now moves to the Senate following the House’s passage of the bill on Thursday. It would allow insurance companies to charge higher premiums for the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions and… Continue watching
May 06 GOP chairman warns agencies about requests for records By Kevin Freking, Associated Press A House Republican chairman has told a dozen government agencies to exclude communications with his committee from requests made through the Freedom of Information Act. Continue reading
May 05 Watch Shields and Gerson on GOP health care bill fallout, Trump’s order on religion By PBS News Hour Syndicated Columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s news, including the House of Representatives’ passage of a GOP health care bill to repeal and replace Obamacare and the coming political consequences… Continue watching
May 05 Draft proposal shows the Trump administration may gut the drug czar’s office By Laura Santhanam The Trump administration is considering drastic cuts that would all but eliminate the Office of National Drug Control Policy, a White House official and agency email confirmed to the NewsHour Friday. According to a draft proposal obtained by NewsHour,… Continue reading
May 05 Silicon Valley jumps into biometric gold rush for Trump’s ‘other border wall’ By Courtney Norris Under President Donald Trump, technology companies have started cashing in on a little-noticed government push to ramp up the use of biometric tools -- such as fingerprinting and iris scanners -- to track people who enter and exit the country. Continue reading
May 05 Trump: ‘Australians have better health care than we do’ By Darlene Superville, Associated Press Trump's praise for the Australian system came hours after the U.S. House narrowly passed a bill to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act. Continue reading
May 05 From Bears Ears to Gold Butte, here are the 27 national monuments being reviewed by the Trump administration By Matthew Daly, Associated Press A list released Friday includes 22 monuments on federal land in 11 states and five marine monuments in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Continue reading
May 05 Trump signs $1 trillion spending bill, keeping government open By Darlene Superville, Associated Press But other budget battles lie ahead as the White House and Congress hammer out a spending plan for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. Continue reading