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After stalled health deal, voters want Congress to deliver
↵↵Lawmakers included a slate of restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers in the fiscal 2026 appropriations law enacted late last month.
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↵↵Lawmakers included a slate of restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers in the fiscal 2026 appropriations law enacted late last month.
Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., touted changes in the fiscal 2026 spending package enacted this month to improve pharmacy-benefit manager pricing transparency and reduce incentives for PBMs to promote higher-priced
"It's 2026. Nothing has happened." ↵↵"I just haven't seen any evidence in our committees of Republicans being interested in this issue," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said during the same briefing.
↵↵That confidence is reflected in Democrats' decision to place on its 2026 target list both Ohio's 10th District, where Knickerbocker is running against longtime Republican Rep. Michael R.
The House aims to finish its work on fiscal 2026 appropriations bills this week, after releasing a four-bill package early Tuesday headlined by funding for the Pentagon and the Department of Health and
Administration officials have spoken with allies on Capitol Hill and think most elements would have bipartisan support and can move forward in 2026.
Both parties are preparing for a hard-fought midterm election year that, if the first full week of 2026 is any indication, will bring along some surprises.Â
↵↵As the calendar flipped to 2026, there have been no immediate signs of another looming partial government shutdown.
affordability, and nobody has really walked through what it's going to mean for those 8 million people," Wyden said, referring to an early estimate of how many people have signed up for ACA coverage for 2026
↵↵Over the weekend, Trump put another item on lawmakers' 2026 agenda when he ordered U.S. military and law enforcement personnel to carry out an audacious mission to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has acknowledged the difficulty, calling health care "a very complicated issue" while adding that there is "much more to come … to bring down the cost of health care" in early 2026
The Senate on Wednesday easily cleared the fiscal 2026 defense authorization, readying the mammoth $900.6 billion measure for a presidential signature.Â
The funding package that was approved included three of the 12 regular fiscal 2026 spending bills, while Congress punted the deadlines for the remaining bills to the end of January.
↵↵House Republican leaders released draft legislation Friday afternoon consisting of a package of health proposals aimed at reducing health care costs in 2026, aiming to lay down a marker ahead of the
​House Republican leaders released draft legislation Friday consisting of a package of health proposals aimed at reducing health care costs in 2026, setting up a possible floor vote this week.
provision authored by Washington Democrat Marilyn Strickland that would ensure U.S. military bases not be named after Confederate officers was stripped out of the final compromise version of the fiscal 2026
The House cast a strong, mostly bipartisan vote Wednesday to pass the bicameral compromise version of the fiscal 2026 NDAA.Â
For prior research investments made during the 2022 through 2024 period, the law enabled businesses to claim deferred deductions this year or across 2025 and 2026.
"I'm hoping that we can find a bill that can get 60 votes that can fix the problem with these changes for Jan. 1, 2026."
↵↵"In 2026, we are going to see very substantial tax refunds in the first quarter.