by Jordana Choucair | Feb 7, 2023 | D.C. News
President Joe Biden will deliver his second State of the Union address this evening. During the speech, he will ask for insulin cost caps for privately insured patients and a renewed bid to close the Medicaid coverage gap in Republican-controlled states that...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 1, 2023 | D.C. News
House Republicans passed a bill on Tuesday to end the COVID-19 public health emergency, one day after the Biden administration announced it would end on May 11. The Pandemic is Over Act — which passed in a 220-210 party-line vote – is unlikely to move in the...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 31, 2023 | D.C. News
President Joe Biden told Congress that he plans to end the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies on May 11, ending the declarations more than three years after they were put in place. The decision comes as House Republicans plan to introduce resolutions to...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 23, 2023 | D.C. News
President Joe Biden is expected to tap Jeff Zients to succeed Ron Klain as the next White House chief of staff. A longtime corporate executive, Zients first entered government during the Obama administration and served in multiple senior roles, including running the...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 21, 2022 | D.C. News
The Senate voted 70 to 25 to advance the roughly $1.7 trillion fiscal 2023 omnibus spending bill. The Senate could take a final vote on the bill, which would avoid a government shutdown, as early as Wednesday evening. Both chambers are expected to pass the measure...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 20, 2022 | D.C. News
Congressional appropriators released a $1.7 trillion fiscal 2023 omnibus spending bill early Tuesday morning. The package includes several health care provisions: 1) omit 2.5 percentage points of a scheduled 4.5 percent cut to the Medicare physician fee schedule in...
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