Tag: Republicans

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is getting ready to move an Obamacare repeal bill after weekend talks resolved outstanding issues with the bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP finalizes Obamacare repeal bill after weekend talks

Susan Ferrechio · March 6, 2017 12:21 pm

President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. applaud on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, following the president's address to a joint session of Congress. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s speech makes mockery of debt reduction, and Republicans don’t care

Philip Klein · March 1, 2017 6:23 am

President calls for insurance tax credits, which conservatives are opposed to. (AP Photo)

Trump speech highlights divide on Obamacare replacement

Paige Winfield Cunningham · March 1, 2017 4:49 am

Enough Republican senators have raised concerns about the import tax’s effects on consumer prices that the math for passing reform in the upper chamber is daunting.

How Republicans could try to get importers to support tax reform

Joseph Lawler · February 27, 2017 5:01 am

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, center, says the current system is unsustainable. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Top House conservative: Repeal Obamacare now

Kyle Feldscher · February 26, 2017 4:10 pm

The outline showed the number of people receiving coverage through Obamacare would drop as much as 51 percent in states that didn’t expand Medicaid coverage and 30 percent in those that did. (iStock photo)

Report: GOP healthcare plan would end coverage for millions

Kyle Feldscher · February 26, 2017 3:36 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi slammed a leaked draft plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, saying it cuts coverage and amounts to a tax break for the wealthy. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Obamacare replacement plan “dangerous,” top Democrats say.

Robert King · February 24, 2017 9:31 pm

States have been trapped in an expensive, one-size-fits-all Medicaid model for too long. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Beltway Confidential

GOP brings flexibility, choice and quality to Medicaid

Sally Pipes · February 24, 2017 3:19 pm

The border adjustment tax may "depress rather than stimulate exports," researchers at the regional Fed bank wrote. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

New York Fed warns GOP tax plan would hurt exports

Joseph Lawler · February 24, 2017 2:52 pm

Texas Rep. Mike Burgess could say only that the healthcare law will be gone before the next CPAC. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

House Republican can’t say when Obamacare will be repealed

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 23, 2017 8:03 pm

Boehner said Republicans will wind up merely fixing Obamacare. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Boehner: GOP won’t replace Obamacare

Robert King · February 23, 2017 4:55 pm

Rather than raise revenues through the border adjustment, also referred to as an import tax, Gramm wrote that Republicans should accept a higher corporate tax rate than the 20 percent rate they are currently targeting. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Phil Gramm rips GOP’s import tax plans

Joseph Lawler · February 23, 2017 1:10 pm