Nathaniel Weixel
@NateWeixel
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Health reporter @thehill, former Hill Extra, former @BloombergBNA. New England transplant. RTs ≠ endorsements. Send tips to [email protected]
Silver Spring, MD
Joined June 2012
Have a book or two on the subject I can recommend
JOHNSON said that he will spend next week detailing who “wrecked American health care”
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I’m so old I remember when Lindsey Graham jumped into the Repeal & Replace train wreck in 2017 only to figure out & admit the Congressional GOP didn’t know what it was talking about on health care policy 😮
If the Affordable Care Act is so “affordable”… why is it that every time I turn around it needs to be bailed out?
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As President Trump and Republicans in Congress promise further details of their health care proposals, remember that all health reform plans have trade-offs. As details get filled in, the winners and losers become clearer.
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just asking questions
What would happen if we paused Obamacare and H1-Bs for one year?
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Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., tells me tonight the enhanced ACA funds should "absolutely" expire. What about the Republicans who want to cut a deal to extend the money? "There's not gonna be any deal cut," Norman says. Does Speaker Johnson share this view? "I think he does."
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Looks like a biotech conference, not #MAHA. How will this help our kids get healthy school lunches? How does this help small farmers and organics? How does this prevent people dying from dangerous pesticides?😢
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Hello from Concord, NH, where 2 Senate Dems are pressing the flesh this week, for some weird reason… Chris Murphy today, and Cory Booker on Fri
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Is there anyone, in either party, or who lives on any planet, who supports the Dulles People Movers? I'm not sure there is a 100% issue in politics, but this one might be close.
Trump officials have a new target: the Dulles “people movers.” White House calls them “notorious,” citing accident this week. And a Trump nominee to Dulles board says he has a plan to kill the shuttles. https://t.co/veGh6LCKdt
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NEW: A distinguished female Navy captain within Naval Special Warfare — a Purple Heart recipient with experience w/ SEAL Team Six — was expected to take command this summer, when it was abruptly cancelled just days before. The impression within the NSW community: Secretary
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Active service women and men who spoke to CNN say that goals Hegseth laid out often don’t make sense and will damage the military.
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Well-meaning negotiators on both sides of the aisle could likely agree to tweaks to ACA premium tax credits. But, trying to upend the structure during open enrollment with out-of-pocket premiums poised to more than double is like trying to retrofit a plane mid flight.
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Sinclair has truly managed to hack away at what used to be a reputable and trusted local ABC affiliate in D.C.
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Republican Senators put a provision in the leg branch approps bill to let themselves sue for millions in taxpayer money over Jan. 6 wiretaps. If Trump’s DOJ doesn’t fight them they just get a bunch of money. Like an earmark but it goes to them personally: https://t.co/UCngPKhjyt
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I'm not sure why there would be another shutdown at end of January. Some Dems have learned they are unlikely to get anything out of it & others have learned that their members will cave in the end (which means the same outcome).
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Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
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John Cornyn tells reporters there’s “no chance” a vote on a Dem ACA bill — which is what Thune promised — will succeed: “The status quo is unsustainable” Cornyn adds that Senate Finance Committee members will meet today at 2pm to discuss ideas to address rising health care costs
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RAND standing up for hemp industry. Shutdown deal would re-criminalize certain hemp derived cannabis products that were legalized in 2018 Farm Bill
@politico Just to be clear: I am not delaying this bill. The timing is already fixed under Senate procedure. But there is extraneous language in this package that has nothing to do with reopening the government and would harm Kentucky’s hemp farmers and small businesses. Standing up for
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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
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There are no projections that show tariff revenue eliminating the annual US budget deficit in the event Congress approves using some for $2000 stimulus checks
“All money left over from the $2000 payments made to low and middle income USA Citizens, from the massive Tariff Income pouring into our Country from foreign countries, which will be substantial, will be used to SUBSTANTIALLY PAY DOWN NATIONAL DEBT.” - President Trump
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With one vote on the ACA tax credits in December, no agreement on a plan, and no commitment from the House or Trump, there is no apparent path to extending the credits. It means the issue will prosecuted in the midterms, and it means pain for tens of millions of Americans.
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And the list of nobody getting what they want out of a shutdown continues: 2013: Republicans didn’t get Obamacare repeal 2018: Dems didn’t get protection for DACA recipients 2018-19: Trump didn’t get border wall money 2025: Dems didn’t get enhanced ACA subsidy extension.
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