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The Politics of Health Care and the 2024 Election - KFF

Health policy and politics are inextricably linked. Policy is about what the government can do to shift the financing, delivery, and quality of health care.

Senate Republicans just paved the road to American authoritarianism

So, what if President Trump does it again? If he wakes up tomorrow and decides to condition military aid to Saudi Arabia or Egypt in ...

President Biden Announces American Rescue Plan | The White House

Emergency Legislative Package to Fund Vaccinations, Provide Immediate, Direct Relief to Families Bearing the Brunt of the COVID-19 Crisis, ...

Ask the expert: What a 2nd Trump term could mean for democracy ...

Erica Frantz, MSU associate professor of political science, answers questions about how Donald Trump could govern, should he win in a second ...

War Powers: What Are They Good For? - CNAS

Predictably, however, President Donald Trump vetoed the measure, and Congress lacked the votes to override. During recent decades, such has ...

Mitch McConnell: Hero or Villain? - POLITICO

We asked congressional insiders, historians and political analysts to choose the longtime Senate GOP leader's most consequential achievement ...

No, Mr. President. You Can't Change the Constitution by Executive ...

President Trump said this week that he is preparing an executive order to try to take away the citizenship guarantee in the 14th Amendment ...

Biography | Representative Nancy Pelosi - House.gov

Nancy Pelosi served as the 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected the first woman to serve as Speaker ...

On the Democratic Party's Cult of Powerlessness - BIG by Matt Stoller

And while anti-monopoly politics sits uneasily in the Democratic Party, that is where it sits. Lina Khan, Rohit Chopra and Jonathan Kanter will ...

Anticipating Trump abuses, Biden pushes to bolster courts

Knowing the important role the courts played in holding Donald Trump's abuses of power at bay in his first term, President Joe Biden is ...

Trump's Worst Enemy - The American Prospect

Today on TAP: His clumsy attempts at autocracy are already backfiring as Senate Republicans refuse to name Trump's choice, Florida Sen.

How the Tea Party Paved the Way for Donald Trump

New research suggests that concerns about cultural change and distrust of distant elites, the same themes that drove Trump supporters, were also central to the ...

Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 25 (Senate - February 10, 2021)

... way that Trump could lose, that it would be a rigged election? Is that the only way Joe Biden could win? Unidentified Speaker. Absolutely. I ...

Opinion | How the path to unity can be paved - The Washington Post

Former president Donald Trump in March and President Biden in January. (AP). By Danielle Allen. July 19, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT. In August 2020, Joe Biden ...

Fact-checking Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's 1st presidential ...

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee Vice ...

Obama-Era Rule Changes Haunts Senate Democrats - The Atlantic

Trump may win Senate confirmation of his entire Cabinet, and while Democrats will oppose many of his nominees, it was their vote in November ...

45 Ways Trump and Congress Threaten the Promise of Roe v. Wade

Wade. Under the Trump administration, there has been a particularly ferocious effort to deny women their fundamental rights and limit access to ...

I Helped Write Project 2025's Policies. Let's Set the Record Straight

Project 2025 published a thoughtful book-length policy blueprint called Mandate for Leadership 2025, which a conservative (or any) president ...

Filibuster Stays, Paving Way for Power-Sharing Agreement | The ...

WASHINGTON – Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell dropped his demand that Democrats maintain the Senate filibuster — ending an early stalemate in the ...

'Major hurdles': The reality check behind Biden's big abortion promise

Passing legislation to codify federal abortion rights would require overcoming significant challenges: winning full control of Congress, piercing the ...