Trump is more focused on his failed Nobel prize campaign than re-opening the government and saving your healthcare premiums from doubling.

To be clear, a shutdown does not require this, only furloughing federal workers. And Trump said today the targets of such firings would be “Democrat oriented.”

If we're going to have art and architecture, could we not have bad art and architecture? washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

Experts in public health say this will have a huge impact on health officials throughout the country, and even the world. Doctors globally have relied on the MMWR for decades to report the first hint of potentially important outbreaks.

Mike Johnson: “The NFL should have chosen a halftime performer like Lee Greenwood, who appeals to a broader audience.” Lee Greenwood Spotify Listeners: 445,000 Bad Bunny Spotify Listeners: 79,000,000

Undocumented migrants are responsible for 0.4% of Medicare charges. If Stephen Miller can tell me his net worth to an accuracy of 40 cents for every $100, I’ll concede the argument to him.

The symbolism of Lee Greenwood is he appeals to a type of person who longs for “the way things used to be” and not for the country that we are.

Emanuel: China's basically found leverage; they're applying pressure, and they're doing it to soybean farmers. Our farmers have lost that market, are out a huge amount of money, and could see a lot of bankruptcies in the rural parts of the Midwest. And all of a sudden, the

From WSJ: “Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an ‘iron fist,’… Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.” wsj.com/politics/polic…

What do Democrats mean when we say that Republicans want to double your health care costs?   Take this 45 year old couple in Humboldt county for example. Under Trump and Republicans’ plan, their health care costs would rise $1,290 a MONTH.    Democrats are trying to work with

On this day in 1977, anti-gay bigot Anita Bryant took a pie in the face during a live TV interview, from gay activist Thom Higgins. Happy Pie Day!

Using a shutdown of his own making to inflict as much damage as possible, Trump’s CDC just fired 1,300 scientists and then hastily rehired half, blaming a “coding error.” Public health can’t be a political weapon.

Republicans are about to raise taxes on 22 million Americans, by letting their ACA health tax credit expire. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

We are not that far from a future in which the Congress hands the President a blank check, and they spend it as they want.

Susan Collins says the WH should take threat of more recissions off the table: “If the Appropriations committee is sending bills to to the president's desk, then the administration has two choices. One is to for the president to veto them, one is for him to sign them.”

1 in 5 Floridians are going to see their health care premiums more than double in 2 months (that's two more payments) - unless the Republicans agree to extend the ACA healthcare credits.

Millions of Americans are going to have their health care premiums skyrocket soon if Republicans let ACA subsidies expire. I’m urging my colleagues to find a solution and end the government shutdown. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Meet Cindy from IL-14. Her health care costs were already rising, and they’re about to explode thanks to the Republican health care crisis. Cindy’s right — no matter whether we have Medicare, Medicaid or Obamacare coverage, we ALL need affordable health care.