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Medicare Savings Should Be Used for Improving Medicare, Not Funding Obamacare

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Attention, seniors!   Here is a simple proposal: Every dime of potential budgetary savings in the Medicare program should first be plowed back into the Medicare program to help ensure its solvency or secondarily be earmarked for debt reduction. Under no circumstances should Medicare be milked as a cash cow for other government programs, whether bulking up Obamacare subsidies, funding “climate change” initiatives, promoting taxpayer funding of abortion, or whatever narrow ideological obsession happens to be captivating congressional “progressives” at the moment. Now get this. In their frenzied attempts to…

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Republicans Think They Can Win the COVID Funding Fight

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If a new coronavirus variant surges in the United States this year—perhaps the one currently tearing through Europe—there’s a reasonable chance that the country will be unprepared to fight it. You can thank Congress for that. Last week, lawmakers passed a massive spending bill without any additional funding for COVID-19 relief, despite White House pleas for more. Democrats would like to fulfill the administration’s request. But Republicans have taken the position that Congress has already done enough. “We don’t need COVID funding,” GOP Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa told me.…

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OMB warns of hiring freeze, funding gaps, if Congress pursues full-year continuing resolution

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Several agencies would lose out on funding needed to address new and emerging priorities if budget stalemates persist for the rest of the year, the Biden administration warned. OMB on Friday detailed a long list of administration priorities it believes would be under-funded or misaligned in the event Congress can’t pass dedicated, full-year funding for the rest of the fiscal year. The current continuing resolution, which provided agencies with temporary stop-gap funding needed to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September, expires Dec. 3. The timeline to secure…

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U.S. Senate fails to advance debt ceiling, government funding measure – Reuters

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U.S. Senate fails to advance debt ceiling, government funding measure  Reuters Senate Republicans block bill to avert government shutdown – as it happened  The Guardian Senate GOP blocks bill that would fund government and suspend debt limit, as time runs short to avoid shutdown and default  CNBC How Joe Biden could end the debt ceiling — all by himself  Vox Fears of a US gov’t shutdown as Republicans block spending bill  Al Jazeera English View Full Coverage on Google News “us democrats” – Google News

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