Democrats are hustling to finalize their gigantic social spending plan during the dog days of summer recess, wary they will blow their target date to finish as Congress faces a crush of deadlines later this month. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered committee leaders to battle it out with their Senate counterparts to resolve all major disputes this […]

WASHINGTON – Today, the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) sent a letter to Democratic leaders of the House and Senate outlining priorities for their upcoming budget reconciliation package. In the letter, which was addressed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, FAH President and CEO Chip Kahn wrote, “I am taking an opportunity to provide recommendations […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday floated a procedural move on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, but the idea did not satisfy a group of moderates who are pushing for a quick vote on passage of the measure. The House is returning to Washington next week in order to pass the Senate-approved $3.5 trillion budget […]

WASHINGTON — Nine moderate House Democrats told Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday that they will not vote for a budget resolution meant to pave the way for the passage of a $3.5 trillion social policy package later this year until a Senate-approved infrastructure bill passes the House and is signed into law. The pledge, in a […]

The bipartisan U.S. infrastructure bill would add $256 billion to the federal budget deficit over a decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday, differing from lawmakers’ contention that the spending would be fully paid for by a smorgasbord of funding measures. The CBO’s release of its so-called score of the $550 billion infrastructure bill is a much-anticipated […]

President Joe Biden urged Senate Democrats to act boldly on his sweeping social and economic agenda Wednesday, as they began hashing out details of an $3.5 trillion tax and spending agreement that marks a crucial step forward for his plan. Biden himself hasn’t yet said whether he supports the proposal unveiled by Democrats on the Senate Budget […]

Hospital and doctors’ groups successfully lobbied to save Covid relief money earmarked for their members, while pharmaceutical companies are expected to lose billions of dollars as part of a bipartisan infrastructure deal struck Wednesday. The $550 billion infrastructure package negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators would be paid in part by delaying a Trump-era […]

Hospitals are raising concerns that outstanding COVID-19 provider relief funds and an extension of the Medicare sequester could be used to offset the costs of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, after the White House’s outline of the framework said it would be partially offset by repurposing unused pandemic relief funds and extending the mandatory […]