Outside the Beltway

The Senate left for vacation without a viable path forward on health care reform, and the road ahead seems treacherous and hard to navigate.

The GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare faces another roadblock, namely the fact that the American public doesn’t support their replacement plan.

A big setback for Republican efforts to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare.

Once again, a bad CBO score is casting doubt on a Republican health care reform bill.

The Senate GOP health care reform care bill faces a crucial week, and things aren’t looking good.

Senate Republicans released their proposed health care plan this morning, but it could already be doomed.

In addition to everything else on its plate, Congress will have to revisit raising the debt ceiling again sometime this summer.

Congress is running out of time in its effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act.

The latest CBO score for the American Health Care Act is bad news for Republicans.

The American Health Care Act may have sailed through the House, but the Senate is another story.

By the barest of margins, the House passed its bill repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, but the future of that bill is highly uncertain.

After failing twice in a month, House Republicans apparently think they have the votes to pass their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

House Republicans are making yet another push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but they once again may not have the votes.

Once again, the GOP punts on ‘repeal and replace’ because they don’t have the votes.

The Freedom Caucus may be mollified, but moderate Republicans and the Senate aren’t. Meaning that repeal and replacement of Obamacare is becoming less likely.

The House Freedom Caucus is apparently getting behind a revised version of the GOP’s plan to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act, but the GOP hasn’t revealed what the new plan entails.

With a government shutdown looming at the end of the week, the Administration has appeared to back away from a demand that a government funding bill include money allocated for the President’s promised border wall.

Another Federal Court has found another Trump Executive Order unconstitutional.

Faced with the fact that it has little to show for its first 100 days in office, the Trump Administration is pressuring Congress to come up with a new health care reform bill before the end of next week.

Republicans are saying that repealing the PPACA isn’t off the table, but practically speaking it probably is.

The failure of the AHCA shows that Donald Trump doesn’t know the slightest thing about leadership or how to be President.

A major legislative defeat for Paul Ryan, the House GOP, and President Trump.

The Trump Administration has issued an ultimatum, but the fate of the American Health Care Act is still very much up in the air.

With a vote tentatively scheduled for this evening, House Republicans appear to lack the votes to pass the American Health Care Act.

The president’s skinny budget would eliminate most funding for science and the arts to fund more Defense spending.

Part Two in a series of observations about health care and health insurance in light of the introduction of the House GOP’s health care plan. This post examines several ideas advanced by conservatives, and the reasons they aren’t complete answers to the problems we face.

The Congressional Budget Office delivered some bad news yesterday to House Republicans on their replacement for Obamacare.

Part One in a series of observations about health care and health insurance in light of the introduction of the House GOP’s health care plan.

Health care policy analysts seem united in their assessment of the House GOP’s replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and it’s overwhelmingly negative.

Whether you call it TrumpCare, RyanCare, or GOPCare, the Republican replacement for the PPACA isn’t very impressive.

It was both the best speech Trump has ever given and the worst presidential address I can recall

Budget hawks in the GOP face a showdown with Donald Trump’s spending ambitions this year that will likely decide whether we’ll ever get spending under control.

At Congressional town halls across the country, there are signs of what could turn into a movement that would cause real headaches for the GOP in future elections.

Repeal and replace is likely to take longer than many Republicans thought it would, but that shouldn’t be surprising.

With repeal of the Affordable Care Act now likely sooner rather than later, key Republicans are urging the party to have a replacement in place before repeal is voted on.

In the wake of the Democratic victory in the North Carolina Governor’s race, the Republican-controlled legislature has stripped the Governor’s office of significant power.

In a rational universe somewhere, John Kasich is preparing to become the de facto Republican nominee for President. In ours, he’s dropping out in favor of Donald Trump.

After oral argument today in a high profile case, it appears likely that public employee unions are likely to suffer a major legal defeat later this year.

The first post-debate polls of the GOP race have more good news for Donald Trump.

The final spending bill for the 2016 Fiscal Year sailed through Congress today, marking the end of a very successful first two months in office for Speaker Paul Ryan

Virginia Democrats tried to capture control of the Virginia State Senate by, in part, emphasizing gun control issues. The fact that they failed is instructive.

Republican Matt Bevin picked up what comes as a surprise win to many observers, and that sets up a big fight over what had been a PPACA program that the White House has touted.

With only a handful of opposition, Paul Ryan was easily elected the 62nd Speaker of the House.

Paul Ryan has yet to say if he will run for Speaker of the House, but that hasn’t stopped the opposition on the hard right from forming already.

Congress will get a temporary funding bill passed in time to avoid a shutdown on Thursday, but it may just be delaying the inevitable.

Mitch McConnell spoke a truth that many conservatives are likely not going to want to accept.

The low-polling candidates met in an early debate. It was about what you’d expect.