…make clear their budget adheres to Trump’s goal of extending his 2017 tax cuts, despite the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation predicting the cuts to cost…

…House Energy and Commerce Committee’s purview, much of which will likely have to come from Medicaid. The message: The moderate Republicans’ letter to House GOP leadership and Energy and Commerce…

…Energy and Commerce Committee would come out of Medicaid by choice. (God forbid those not being able to afford healthcare should have healthcare.) Those with no healthcare should work longer…

…10-year spending cut target for the Energy and Commerce Committee would have to come out of Medicaid, because Medicaid accounts for 93% of projected 10-year spending under E&C’s purview — excluding Medicare….

…damage these cuts may inflict as they consider CBO’s projections. * CMS considered these five options at the request of Democrats Ron Wyden, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee,…

…Martin Makary, MD, MPH, and Principal Deputy Commissioner Sara Brenner, MD, MPH. The 2-hour meeting was livestreamed.  But, unlike a traditional FDA advisory committee meeting, there were no lengthy, data-driven…

…chief of staff and senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisors during the George W. Bush administration. He was appointed in 2019 with the support of Senate Budget Committee…

RFK Jr. has appointed a clown car to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). And it shows: “If observers were waiting for a moment when the newly anointed…

…is something bad in the files and is trying to spin it before it might come to light. Today the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Dick Durbin…

The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, keeping its benchmark range at 4.25% to 4.5%. In his remarks, Fed Chair Jerome Powell explained the committee’s view that “the…