Julie Stuebner, 74, of Batavia calls herself a “late in life protestor.” She’s started going to all the protests she can in the area during President Donald Trump’s second term.Among other issues, she’s concerned about possible cuts to programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Securit...

May 13, 2025 7:00 amMany Republican members of Congress have been leery of cuts to Medicaid, afraid of being tarred by Democratic attack ads. The recently released House Energy and Commerce Committee draft proposals should help them rest more easily because they avoid the classic Republican mist...

By Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic U.S. politics, but he has experience covering Foreign Affairs, Business and Technology.

Last week I went down to Washington to speak to Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, after he gave a speech marking Donald Trump’s calamitous first 100 days in office.At a time when many Democrats feel leaderless, Jeffries, usually a relentlessly on-message inside operator, had been step...

Last week, Trump hyped a coming announcement that was “as big as it gets.” And on Sunday evening, he teed up the order in a Truth Social post, writing that he would link US drug prices to those in peer countries under a “most favored nation” pricing model — a policy he attempted unsucce...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. or face new limits down the road over what the government will pay.The order calls on the health departm...

April is Financial Literacy Month and to celebrate, I am answering some of your questions.Q: Can President Donald Trump Fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell?The Federal Reserve was created by Congress in 1913 to make the American banking system more stable. Banking panics had occurred of...

Politics By Darius TahirMay 5, 2025 / 5:00 AM EDT / KFF Health News Former agency head on preserving Social Security Former agency head on preserving Social Security 05:52Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dea...