The House Budget Committee has begun having early discussions on a second Republican megabill, eyeing more potential reforms to Medicaid, sources told Fox News Digital. Republicans on the panel are expected to hold closed-door talks in the coming days, as lawmakers return from the August recess, three people familiar with the matter said. Two sources familiar with discussions said the ...
Adam N. Michel and Dominik Lett Republicans are talking about another budget reconciliation bill: Reconciliation 2.0. The question is whether Congress should give it a try. The short answer: only if it shrinks the size and scope of the federal government. The first reconciliation package, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), was a mixed bag. Reconciliation 2.0 could fix ...
Mike Fox When my fellow Suffolk Law alumnus and current Rhode Island Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan had a bit too much to drink, she could have simply called it a night. Instead, she chose to stay, refusing to comply with directives from the staff at Newport’s Clarke Cook House to leave. The restaurant staff, with no other ...
Colleen Hroncich “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” These lyrics from the song Freewill, by the Canadian rock band Rush, resonate with me whenever I have a difficult decision to make. While it may be tempting to kick the can down the road, these lyrics remind me that not deciding is itself making a ...
President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter who claimed he has taken ‘no action’ against Russia since taking office on Wednesday. The exchange came as Trump was holding a bilateral meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki at the White House. Trump took questions from the press, and one reporter with a Polish outlet claimed Trump has so far been ...
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Politicians, commentators, and lobby organizations alike have been sounding the alarm that the increasing age of first-time homebuyers is the latest evidence of a housing affordability crisis. But do the data really support that view? Many, if not most, of these claimants are getting their numbers from the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) 2024 Profile ...
Chris Edwards The US Postal Service (USPS) is losing billions of dollars and has a bleak outlook. One reason why is that young people have gone digital and have little use for letter mail. With the continued relentless decline of letters in the coming years, roughly half of the USPS’s current revenues may disappear. Demographic data on postal system use ...
The spoiler is coming in early: yes, SMS marketing is experiencing a comeback, a renaissance, if you will. Adoption rates are continually moving upwards, with engagement metrics far higher than many other, trendier marketing channels. With businesses trying to stand out in a saturated social media space and declining email performance, text messaging is starting to emerge as the direct, ...
A lawyer representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein said Wednesday that the American public is ‘going to be appalled’ about documents relating to the disgraced late financier that have not been released by the federal government. ‘The government has mistreated them after Jeffrey Epstein mistreated them,’ Bradley Edwards said of the victims in Washington, D.C. Edwards spoke during a news conference that ...
David J. Bier Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is diverting criminal law enforcement agents away from their investigations and enforcement responsibilities to conduct civil immigration enforcement operations on a massive scale. New data highlight how widespread this misuse of government personnel and resources is. Congress should prevent this diversion of appropriated funds in the next government spending bill. According to ...