August recess analysis coverage:
First up is a visual from our Data & Graphics team looking at new priorities outlined in the Democratic Party’s platform during the DNC last month. The party’s platform highlighted economic growth along with investments from the bipartisan infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act, and proposed expanding protections for workers and unions.
The platform also touched on tax policy, social spending on things like Medicaid expansion and rural health care, border security and immigration, foreign policy, criminal justice, energy policy and more. Data reporter Taylor Miller Thomas has everything you need to know in one handy graphic.
Next, health care reporter Sophie Gardner teamed up with data reporter Madi Alexander to take a look at what health care legislation and rules the administration and lawmakers hope to tackle before the new Congress gets sworn in early next year. Federal health agencies still have a few critical rules to finalize and propose — like the 2025 physician fee schedule and the DEA’s telemedicine rule — by the end of the 2024. There are also two key health care-related bills that could still become law: the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act and the Improving Seniors’ Timely Accesss to Care Act.
And last but certainly not least, our Legislative Compass team just published a Pro Bill Analysis on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer‘s No Kings Act (S. 4973), which would essentially reverse the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity. SCOTUS ruled in July that Donald Trump had immunity from criminal prosecution for certain actions he took as president while attempting to subvert the 2020 election.
Shortly after the decision was announced, Schumer indicated that Democrats were planning to move forward with a measure to classify Trump’s acts as “unofficial,” and therefore not immune from prosecution. Check out Jordan William’s coverage of the No Kings Act here.
Wrapping up recess
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September 12, 2024 3:16 am
August recess analysis coverage:
First up is a visual from our Data & Graphics team looking at new priorities outlined in the Democratic Party’s platform during the DNC last month. The party’s platform highlighted economic growth along with investments from the bipartisan infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act, and proposed expanding protections for workers and unions.
The platform also touched on tax policy, social spending on things like Medicaid expansion and rural health care, border security and immigration, foreign policy, criminal justice, energy policy and more. Data reporter Taylor Miller Thomas has everything you need to know in one handy graphic.
Next, health care reporter Sophie Gardner teamed up with data reporter Madi Alexander to take a look at what health care legislation and rules the administration and lawmakers hope to tackle before the new Congress gets sworn in early next year. Federal health agencies still have a few critical rules to finalize and propose — like the 2025 physician fee schedule and the DEA’s telemedicine rule — by the end of the 2024. There are also two key health care-related bills that could still become law: the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act and the Improving Seniors’ Timely Accesss to Care Act.
And last but certainly not least, our Legislative Compass team just published a Pro Bill Analysis on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer‘s No Kings Act (S. 4973), which would essentially reverse the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity. SCOTUS ruled in July that Donald Trump had immunity from criminal prosecution for certain actions he took as president while attempting to subvert the 2020 election.
Shortly after the decision was announced, Schumer indicated that Democrats were planning to move forward with a measure to classify Trump’s acts as “unofficial,” and therefore not immune from prosecution. Check out Jordan William’s coverage of the No Kings Act here.