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Moderates, far-left Democrats clash over Pelosi’s plan to lower Medicare drug prices

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi struggled on Wednesday to attach one of her top priorities -- a plan to lower Medicare drug prices -- to the $3.5 trillion social welfare bill.

September 15, 2021

House Democrats advance plan for bigger Obamacare with subsidies for all

House Democrats on Tuesday moved to make permanent a dramatic expansion of Obamacare that includes giving government subsidies for health insurance to the poor and wealthy alike.

September 15, 2021

Senate Dems strike deal for vote on their election overhaul bill

Senate Democrats on Tuesday announced a deal clinching crucial support from Sen. Joe Manchin III for an election overhaul bill, setting up a vote on the legislation that would override new voting laws in Republican-run states.

September 14, 2021

Senate Dems to force vote on bill overriding new elections laws in GOP-led states

Senate Democrats are preparing to force a vote on a bill to override new elections laws in Republican-led states that they say discriminate against minorities, an effort that faces likely defeat.

September 13, 2021

Rep. Ayanna Pressley blames Realtors’ money for Democrats’ inaction on evictions

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a member of the far-left "Squad," said Friday that her fellow House Democrats and the rest of Congress have let millions of renters face eviction because they are in the pockets of real estate agents.

September 10, 2021

Survey of small businesses finds optimism falling as Democrats push for tax hikes

Optimism among small business owners has plummeted as Democrats race to raise taxes amid rising inflation, according to a new poll by a right-leaning advocacy group Friday.

September 10, 2021

Wholesale prices soar, small-business optimism falls as Dems weigh trillions in new spending

Wholesale prices soared 8.3% in August from a year ago, the biggest annual gain since the Labor Department began tracking the inflation data in 2010 and potentially another sign of trouble for President Biden's big-spending agenda.

September 10, 2021

Fissures grow in House Democrats’ support for Biden’s $3.5 trillion social welfare bill

Cracks emerged Thursday in House Democrats' support for President Biden's $3.5 trillion spending package when Rep. Stephanie Murphy said she couldn't back a plan that still lacked the most basic details.

September 9, 2021

Poll: Majority of Americans support ‘pause’ on Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending spree

A clear majority of Americans -- and nearly half of Democrats -- agree with Sen. Joe Manchin III that his party is moving too fast to pass a $3.5 trillion spending bill and should take a "strategic pause," according to a poll released Thursday.

September 9, 2021

House Dems start assembling $3.5 trillion social welfare bill: ‘If that’s socialistic, count me in’

House Democrats on Thursday opened a weeks-long debate over the $3.5 trillion spending package they plan to push through Congress in party-line votes, describing the planned expansion of the social safety net as transforming America.

September 9, 2021

Drug companies say Dems’ plan will wipe them ‘off the face of the earth’

The heads of the nation's major pharmaceutical companies on Wednesday warned that Democrats' plan to let Medicare set drug prices would push some of them out of business.

September 8, 2021

Dems split over fed health help for elderly or poor in $3.5 trillion bill

Democrats are running into the reality that they may not be able to expand government health care programs as much as they want in President Biden's $3.5 trillion package of social welfare spending.

September 8, 2021

Civil rights groups challenge new Texas voting legislation

Civil rights groups on Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court trying to block Texas' new voting legislation, saying it would violate the civil rights of minorities by making it more difficult for them to cast their ballots.

September 3, 2021

Democrats hit with ‘historic’ lobbying frenzy over $3.5 trillion social-welfare spending bill

The Democrats' rush to draft a $3.5 trillion social-welfare spending bill has spurred an onslaught of lobbying by a vast array of interests from the energy industry to immigration hawks.

September 3, 2021

Arizona AG warns Education Department on school mask mandates

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich warned the U.S. Education Department that he would fight any effort by the federal government to block the state's ban on mask mandates in schools, which goes into effect at the end of September.

September 1, 2021

Minnesota Dems anxious over defund-the-police plan to replace cops with counselors

The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer last year set off calls among liberals to "defund the police," and now that city's voters will decide a ballot measure that would replace cops with social workers or drug counselors on some 911 calls.

September 1, 2021

‘Sitting on their hands’: Democrats fume over inaction by Pelosi, Schumer to extend eviction ban

Frustration among far-left lawmakers has reached a fever pitch over the failure of the Democratic-run Congress to keep in place a federal moratorium on evictions, despite knowing for months that the Supreme Court would toss out the eviction ban.

August 30, 2021

Biden Education Department threatens money to five states over bans on indoor mask requirements

The Education Department is investigating whether five states are violating the rights of students with disabilities by barring schools from requiring that masks be worn indoors.

August 30, 2021

‘I am devastated’: Rep. Adam Schiff demands ‘every effort’ to protect Americans, allies in Kabul

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Thursday called on the Biden administration to make "every effort" to prevent terrorist militants from causing more bloodshed and death in Afghanistan.

August 26, 2021

Inflation emerges as 2022 campaign issue; GOP blames Dems’ big spending for soaring prices

Surging inflation, with the possibility of massive spending bills in Congress driving prices even higher, has emerged as a top campaign issue heading into the midterm elections next year.

August 26, 2021