Kentucky

Now that the Obama administration has left, conservatives are turning to the Trump White House to allow them to tighten Medicaid in ways they've long wanted, mainly through the submission of waivers. (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Healthcare

Republican states get creative to tighten Medicaid rules

February 20, 2018 5:01 am

While Democratic leadership, including Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, initially called for largely replacing the law, key party officials in recent days have conspicuously declined to say that repeal is the goal.

Economy

‘Repeal and replace’ Trump’s tax cuts? Democrats won’t go there

Joseph Lawler -

February 20, 2018 5:01 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, talks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., before his speech at the McConnell Center's Distinguished Speaker Series Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, in Louisville, Ky.

News

Bourbon bout: Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell lightheartedly spar over Brooklyn whiskey

Naomi Lim -

February 13, 2018 1:28 am

Economy

Tiny Berea College’s $1 million tax reprieve shows how the sausage gets made

Joseph Lawler -

February 11, 2018 12:01 am

Rand Paul also said the country needs to stop trying to nation-build and focus on domestic spending. (AP)

National Security

Lindsey Graham slams ‘General’ Rand Paul for suggesting Trump should withdraw troops from Afghanistan

Melissa Quinn -

February 8, 2018 11:52 pm

A spokesman for Rand Paul said the senator was seeking a vote to restore the budget caps that members of both parties are looking to ignore in order to boost spending and nondefense spending in an omnibus spending bill they want to pass next month. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

News

Rand Paul delaying Senate vote to avoid shutdown to protest budget deal

Pete Kasperowicz -

February 8, 2018 9:20 pm

Beltway Confidential

Who is most conservative of them all? Rep. Thomas Massie says Trump saved tax bill and ‘probably saved the GOP from itself’

Philip Wegmann -

February 1, 2018 8:16 pm

News

Rand Paul on his injuries: ‘The bones will never be straight’

Pete Kasperowicz -

February 1, 2018 2:04 pm

A group of lawmakers say that the Trump administration's work requirements rules are out of line with the plain meaning of the Medicaid law, as well as with congressional intent. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Healthcare

House lawmakers charge Medicaid work rules violate federal law

Robert King -

January 26, 2018 8:21 pm

A flag outside Marshall County High School in Benton, Ky., flies at half-staff Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. On Tuesday, a 15-year-old student opened fire at the school, killing two teenagers and wounding several others. (Ryan Hermens/The Paducah Sun via AP)

Beltway Confidential

False: There haven’t been 10 other school shootings this year like the one in Kentucky

Siraj Hashmi -

January 25, 2018 7:03 pm

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Republican states get creative to tighten Medicaid rules

‘Repeal and replace’ Trump’s tax cuts? Democrats won’t go there

Bourbon bout: Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell lightheartedly spar over Brooklyn whiskey

Tiny Berea College’s $1 million tax reprieve shows how the sausage gets made

Lindsey Graham slams ‘General’ Rand Paul for suggesting Trump should withdraw troops from Afghanistan

Rand Paul delaying Senate vote to avoid shutdown to protest budget deal

Who is most conservative of them all? Rep. Thomas Massie says Trump saved tax bill and ‘probably saved the GOP from itself’

Rand Paul on his injuries: ‘The bones will never be straight’

House lawmakers charge Medicaid work rules violate federal law

False: There haven’t been 10 other school shootings this year like the one in Kentucky

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