The Trump administration believes the most overburdened working families in America do not have enough stress in their lives, and it’s working with Republican governors to strip them of vital health care services. The White House sent a letter to the directors of state Medicaid agencies that gives them the green light to cut off […]

The Trump administration is working to expose underaged children to pesticides that could cause cancer or brain damage, in yet another initiative designed to hurt vulnerable Americans. The Trump-era Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — led by Scott Pruitt, who had repeatedly sued the agency prior to becoming its leader — is considering rule changes in a […]

The impending human cost of Republicans’ failure to restore funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program for 9 million kids is very real, and growing all the time. Numerous states are warning that enrollment for the popular, bipartisan health program will freeze in a matter of weeks, meaning low-income families all over America will lose […]

Barely 12 hours after passing a historically unpopular tax scam that creates a $1.4 trillion hole in the federal budget, Republicans are now refusing to reauthorize funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — at least until they can figure out a way to get something for themselves along the way. Federal funds for CHIP, which […]

Apparently, passing a massive tax giveaway to the rich isn’t quite enough to soothe Donald Trump’s fragile ego after a year of failure. So someone on his team — his daughter Ivanka? Son-in-law Jared Kushner? Chief of staff John Kelly? — told him his bill did much more than ensure his children will inherit billions […]

Republicans are planning to ram through the final version of their tax scam this week, voting in the House on Tuesday and the Senate on Wednesday. But activists are refusing to back down. Enraged by the attempt to raise taxes on the middle class and destroy health insurance markets to pay for tax breaks for […]

Nine million kids in America are about to lose their health care, and Donald Trump couldn’t care less. Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) expired on Oct. 1, and several states are warning American that their children’s coverage could be terminated, but neither Trump nor fellow Republicans in Congress have done anything about […]

On Saturday morning, millions of Americans awoke to the news that Senate Republicans had passed a historically unpopular bill that raises taxes on 87 million working families, hands billionaires and corporations massive giveaways, and undermines the existing health care system. They passed the scheme in the dead of night, leaving most Americans in the dark about […]

At the beginning of the holiday season, Republicans showed Americans where their priorities lie: Giving aid and comfort to mega-rich donors and leaving sick children out in the cold. Republicans, who control the House, Senate, and the White House, have refused to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This program, which provides health care […]

Republicans have failed, time and time again, to cut Medicaid. It remains highly popular, with voters in Maine decisively choosing to expand it last week, and so far public opposition has thwarted any legislation to roll it back. But according to the Hill, the Trump administration is now planning to unilaterally let Republican governors take […]

On Tuesday, the GOP scheme to steal money from working families, small businesses, and veterans to pay for tax breaks for the mega-wealthy got much, much worse. At the behest of a group of far-right senators, GOP leadership inserted repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate into the Senate tax bill. The idea is that because this […]

Donald Trump has been hell-bent on repealing Obamacare since day one in office. And with all of the attempts by Republicans in Congress to destroy President Barack Obama’s signature achievement in the trash can, Trump has taken matters into his own hands. After signing executive orders to exempt several health plans from Obamacare consumer protections, […]

After a series of failed efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Republicans are still determined to take health care away from Americans — and they’re willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. According to a new report, GOP lawmakers are considering using their newly unveiled tax scheme to secretly undermine the […]

  Taking a break from blaming Democrats for a terrorist attack on his watch, Donald Trump tweeted that the Senate should repeal an essential part of Obamacare and “use those savings” for tax cuts for billionaires and corporations. Trump is advocating stripping health insurance from millions of Americans, then using that as a platform to […]

Republicans were so busy trying to ram through their nightmarish Obamacare repeal bill in September that they forgot to put a key funding bill on the agenda: the reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which covers some 9 million children. Funding officially expired on Oct. 1. Nearly one month later, Republicans have shown […]

Donald Trump has long promised action on the drug crisis ravaging rural communities and tearing families apart with death and loss — particularly in Appalachia, where his core base is anchored. During his campaign, he vowed one of his signature policies would be to “end the opioid epidemic in America.” Fast forward to today. Trump has done […]

Donald Trump refused to let the GOP’s failures to repeal Obamacare stand in his way. This month, he struck back by signing executive orders ending the birth control mandate, pushing people to buy “association” and “short-term” plans without consumer protections, and — most crucially — terminating cost sharing reduction subsidies to insurers. On Monday, Trump boasted in bizarre […]

Donald Trump’s decision to end a provision of the Affordable Care Act that helps people afford health insurance will harm states that voted for him in 2016 the most, according to a new analysis conducted by the Associated Press. The ACA’s cost-sharing subsidies help low- and middle-income earners afford health insurance by lowering the price […]

It’s no secret at all how much damage Donald Trump and the Republican Party are trying to do to the nation’s health care system. Governors from all across the country slammed Trump for his latest attempt to sabotage Americans’ health care, after the White House announced an end to cost-sharing payments to insurers, which will cause […]

The bipartisan rejection of Donald Trump’s policies continues at a record pace, with the National Governors Association (NGA) releasing a statement condemning his latest attempts to sabotage the health care markets. The Trump White House recently said that they will end cost sharing payments to insurers, an unnecessarily cruel move that will do no good and only cause harm […]

On Thursday, Donald Trump took his biggest step yet to sabotage health care for the American people by ending Obamacare’s cost sharing payments to insurers. The move will cause chaos in insurance markets, raise premiums by 25 percent, and add almost $200 billion to the deficit — for no other reason than jealous spite for […]

The GOP plan to repeal Obamacare failed dozens of times before Donald Trump took office, and it has not fared any better with him in power. So instead, Trump has openly admitted that he is going to dismantle it “piece by piece” until it is destroyed — or until Democrats cave to his demands and […]

Donald Trump has just made it harder for cancer patients to receive the treatment they need, and his White House says the practice will continue until Democrats give in to his destructive demands. Trump is withholding the cost-sharing reduction payments made to insurers that cover millions of people seeking care across the country. The decision […]

Enraged that the American people rose up and stopped the repeated GOP plots to destroy Obamacare in Congress, Donald Trump has taken matters into his own hands, dismantling every part of the law he can out of sheer spite. And on Thursday evening, Trump announced his most drastic act of sabotage yet: after months of […]

Minutes after Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to hurt Americans and their health care, his party made a huge mistake and admitted that Obamacare has been an amazing success. Seeking to reinforce Trump, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel released a statement noting, “Trump continues to make good on his promise to the […]

Donald Trump vowed to repeal Obamacare on day one, if not sooner. Instead, his attempts to do anything with health care have failed — not once, not twice, but three times. So instead of working to make health care better, Trump is working to destroy the health care law that has made life better for […]

Donald Trump has utterly failed to deliver on his threat to repeal Obamacare and harm the millions of men and women who have health care because of it. So he’s going to punish women directly instead. On Friday, his administration announced that he is rolling back the critical provision that covers birth control — a […]

Donald Trump was rejected at the ballot box by a strong majority of American women in the 2016 presidential election. Almost all of them were repulsed by the “Access Hollywood” tape of him bragging that he would “grab them by the pussy” because “when you’re a star, they let you do it.” One year later, […]

Republicans in Congress have tried again and again to repeal health care for sick kids. Every time, public protest thwarted them. House Speaker Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act was defeated. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Better Care Reconciliation Act was defeated. “Skinny repeal” was defeated. The Graham-Cassidy bill was defeated. But even after all of […]

As Americans struggle to make sense of the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas, GOP lawmakers have been hiding from any discussion of guns. When they get the chance, Republicans try to steer the debate anywhere else. One of their longtime favorite deflections is to say that gun violence is simply a matter of fixing “mental […]