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Michael McAuliff Kaiser Health News Democrats in the Senate are primed this month to make their first attempt at salvaging one of the most popular elements of President Joe Biden’s stalled Build Back Better plan — the proposal to cap insulin costs at $35 a month. It might not go …

Sara Luterman Originally published by The 19th Secretary Xavier Becerra, America’s top health official, met with leaders in aging, labor and disability to discuss the future of home care funding on Thursday. This meeting was the first of its kind since negotiations over President Joe Biden’s $1.8 trillion Build Back …

President Joe Biden visited a heavily Republican rural stronghold in Virginia on Thursday to join Representative Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, to push Congress to take action on proposals to reduce prescription drug prices. He traveled to Germanna Community College in Culpepper, Va., to speak on work his administration has done to …

Chabeli Carrazana Originally published by The 19th For six months at the tail end of two tumultuous years, parents received direct payments — no strings attached — of as much as $300 per child in their bank accounts. By many accounts, that money delivered long-awaited relief for 61 million children, …

Amanda Becker Originally published by The 19th When the U.S. Senate returned to Washington last week after its winter recess, Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia poured cold water on the prospects for the Build Back Better plan, a sweeping $1.75 trillion Democratic economic proposal with numerous measures designed to …

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin announced Sunday he “cannot” vote for President Joe Biden‘s Build Back Better Act,  a sweeping policy framework that encompasses the vast majority of the Biden administration’s domestic agenda. His potential ‘No’ vote essentially brings efforts to get the plan through Congress to a halt. Manchin, …

On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris marked the White House’s very first Maternal Health Week, delivering remarks and a call to action on the urgent crisis the nation faces. Harris used the occasion to highlight investments proposed in the Build Back Better Act, which would support safer pregnancies and childbirth …

President Joe Biden on Monday touted aspects of his Build Back Better social spending bill aimed at reducing the costs of prescription drugs as Democrats worked to pass the legislation by Christmas. In a televised address from the White House, Biden said the $2 trillion bill would address “outrageously high” …

On Friday, the House voted to pass a historic $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act that makes unprecedented investments in working people, families, and communities across America. The roll call fell mostly among party lines with a vote of 220-213, with one Democrat, Maine Congressman Jared Goldman, voting against it. “We …

President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he had reached a “historic economic framework” with Democrats in Congress on his social spending plan, the Build Back Better Act. President Biden: "Today, I'm pleased to announce that after months of tough and thoughtful negotiations, I think we have an historic, I …

Democrats will reportedly drop paid family and medical leave from the Build Back Better Act. According to reporting, Sen. Joe Manchin wouldn’t agree to the initiative because he doesn’t think it can be paid for. “I just can’t do it,” the West Virginia Senator said. “To expand social programs when …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said that Democrats are nearing a deal on President Joe Biden‘s ‘Build Back Better’ Act. The social spending bill that Democrats have been negotiating for months includes most of the president’s priorities, including an array of benefits for students, families and the elderly, and …

President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan has been delayed in Congress as Democrats haggle over the cost and what programs should be trimmed or cut entirely to arrive at a price tag that will win over moderate holdouts but spend enough to retain progressive support. Amanda Becker Originally published …

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden traveled to Michigan to stump for the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan and the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, also known as the Build Back Better Act. Biden told the Michigan audience that “we’re at an inflection point” and “we risk losing our edge as a nation” and …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined a “time of intensity” this week, saying her caucus “must pass” President Biden’s $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, and a bill to keep the government open as it will run out of money on Thursday, September 30. The …