Senate Rejects Dueling Health Care Bills Tackling Expiring Obamacare Subsidies

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(Left) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). (Right) Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.). WASHINGTON—The Senate on Dec. 11 rejected a pair of competing health care measures aimed at addressing expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. Both procedural votes ran largely along party lines, with neither proposal gaining the 60 votes needed to advance in the

Senate to Vote on Dueling Health Care Bills Tackling Expiring Obamacare Subsidies

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.). WASHINGTON—The Senate is poised for a Dec. 11 vote on competing measures to resolve the standoff over extending the expiring subsidies for Obamacare. Both are likely to fall along party lines, and to fail to reach the 60-vote threshold required to advance

New York’s Next Top Cop? Meet Saritha Komatireddy, the Former Federal Prosecutor Who Took Down ISIS Terrorists—and Is Now Gunning for Letitia James

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Saritha Komatireddy believes in longshots, she told the Washington Free Beacon. Komatireddy, a 41-year-old mother of four and former federal prosecutor, announced her candidacy for New York attorney general last week as a Republican in a state former vice president Kamala Harris won by double digits in the 2024 presidential election. Less than a quarter

Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was ‘Touted as a Foremost Expert’ on Radical Islam and Was Studying for an Oxford PhD—But His Thesis Is ‘Missing’ and There’s No Evidence He Was Ever a Doctoral Student

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Maryland governor Wes Moore, now considered a serious prospect for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, got his big break in 2006. Fresh off a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, President George W. Bush awarded Moore, then 27, a White House fellowship, a prestigious, year-long internship during which he served as a special assistant to then-secretary of

The Senate’s ‘Blue Slip’ Tradition Is Hampering Trump’s Appointments

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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has been frustrated by a Senate tradition that has negatively affected his appointments for U.S. attorney positions. The “blue slip” is a tradition in the upper chamber where home state senators of U.S. attorney and district court nominees either approve or disapprove of that person. Both state senators must return their blue