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GOP tax cut plans may depend on savings from Medicaid. What is it and who...
About 60 percent of the nation’s 73 million children in 2022 received their health insurance through Medicaid or CHIP, which extends Medicaid benefits to children of low-income families who make too...
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Deep cutbacks in Social Security staff slammed by U.S. Senate Democrats
The Social Security Administration has announced that it would “soon implement agency-wide organizational restructuring that will include significant workforce reductions.”(Photo illustration by...
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Trump boasts ‘America’s momentum is back’ in address to Congress as Dems...
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Vice President J.D. Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana,...
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Trump may put hundreds of federal buildings up for sale, including FBI, USDA,...
The current FBI headquarters building in downtown Washington, D.C., on Nov. 23, 2023. The goverment has been looking for a new home for the agency for years and now the Trump administration has it on a...
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U.S. Supreme Court sides against Trump in legal fight over $2B in frozen...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to continue payments on $2 billion in...
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Trump administration’s ‘irreparable’ cut in NIH research funds blocked by judge
An NIH Pediatric Oncology Branch researcher's lab jacket, embroidered with the NIH logo with blue chevron detail. The POB is dedicated to improving outcomes for children and young adults with cancer...
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State-by-state report by Dems projects millions of people could lose Medicaid...
Medicaid sign at U.S. Senate Democrats’ press conference on Feb. 19, 2025. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — A report released Thursday by Democrats details how many people in...
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Second federal judge issues order blocking White House freeze on grants and...
President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A federal...
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Republicans control Congress, but need Democrats to help avert a shutdown...
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes a question from a reporter during a news conference following a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 25, 2025 in...
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U.S. House GOP pushes through bill averting shutdown on Friday; Senate is next
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, speaks alongside Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., left, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., right, during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on...
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Republicans in U.S. Senate form group to study restructuring the CDC
U.S. Senate Republicans are eyeing an overhaul of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pictured here. (Photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)WASHINGTON — Louisiana...
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Shutdown looms as ‘unified’ U.S. Senate Dems oppose GOP’s stopgap spending bill
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a press conference following a policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on March 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty...
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Schumer support for GOP spending bill appears to possibly stave off...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 7, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced during...
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Hours away from shutdown, U.S. Senate clears spending bill for Trump’s signature
U.S. Capitol at sunset on March 8, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate cleared a stopgap spending bill Friday that will fund the government through the end of...
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Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts pushes back against Trump call to impeach...
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan attend U.S. President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025, in Washington,...
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Medicaid cuts rippling through rural America could bring hospital closures,...
A sign at the entrance for Mahaska Health, a hospital in Oskaloosa, Iowa, that has received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (Photo by Cecilia Lynch/USDA). WASHINGTON — Americans living...
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Social Security nominee vows service will improve despite mass firings,...
Frank Bisignano, the nominee for Social Security commissioner in the Trump administration, testifies before the Senate Finance Committee at his confirmation hearing on March 25, 2025. (Screenshot from...
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EMILYs List sets ambitious course to flip U.S. House in 2026
Abortion advocates and Democratic U.S. House members march in front of the U.S. Capitol on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — A group that focuses on electing...
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Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health nominees confirmed
Jayanta Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump's nominee to be director of the National Institutes of Health, speaks at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor...
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‘Signalgate’ group chat revealed precise attack timeline, surveillance of target
U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., points to text messages by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during an annual worldwide threats assessment hearing at the Longworth House Office Building on March...
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