Trump Deals Another Blow To Obama’s Health Care Legacy
The Trump administration announced Saturday that it is temporarily freezing billions of dollars of payments to health insurance companies intended to help them manage higher-risk patients, sparking backlash from the industry’s lobbying arm as insurers continue to struggle to adjust to the administration’s repeated attacks on Obamacare. The federal government provides Obamacare insurers risk adjustment payments, which are supposed to cushion insurers from taking steep loses on high risk patients in the Obamacare marketplace. The government paid out over $10 billion in these in 2017. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service announced the abrupt halt of these payments Saturday evening, citing a ... Read More
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Trump White House Is Smaller, Spends Less Than Obama White House
Over $20 million in taxpayer funds could be saved at the end of President Donald Trump’s first term in office due to his leaner White House operation. A new report on the White House Office Personnel revealed that Trump has a significantly smaller staff than his predecessor did at this time, according to an analysis by Open the Books, a government watchdog organization that focuses on spending. “Although the White House personnel budget is an infinitesimal part of the $3.9 trillion federal budget, it is an important forecasting indicator showing Trump’s deep commitment to cut the size, scope and power of the federal government and ... Read More
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Trump to Reshape Supreme Court with Nomination
President Trump is set to announce his Supreme Court pick Monday, appointing a jurist who has the chance to set the highest court on a new trajectory and deliver decisions to which conservatives have been looking forward for generations. Issues ranging from abortion to the administrative state could be strongly influenced by the president’s appointment, who will fill the seat vacated by the court’s longtime swing vote, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. Mr. Trump will reveal the nomination at 9 p.m. at the White House but told reporters on his way back to Washington from a weekend at his New Jersey golf club that he hadn’t yet ... Read More
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Texans Getting Requests to Survey Land for Border Wall
Texas property owners along the border with Mexico are getting notices from the federal government seeking permission to survey their lands for the construction of a possible wall, KENS 5 News reported on Sunday. Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar, said there have been more than 200 such requests made in Starr and Hidalgo counties. One of those contacted was Escobares Mayor Noel Escobar, who said that he and his neighbors received letters from the Army Corps of Engineers and Customs and Border Protection several weeks ago asking permission to survey their land. ... Read More
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Massive US Spending on NATO 'Not Acceptable'
President Trump on Monday again blasted North Atlantic Treaty Organization members for what he described as their measly spending, asking them to increase their contributions to the alliance, reiterating past criticism ahead of his trip to a NATO summit this week. “The United States is spending far more on NATO than any other Country. This is not fair, nor is it acceptable. While these countries have been increasing their contributions since I took office, they must do much more. Germany is at 1%, the U.S. is at 4%, and NATO benefits..........Europe far more than it does the U.S,” the president wrote on Twitter. ... Read More
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