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By Tierney Sneed and Evan Perez, CNN The Biden Justice Department sued the state of Texas on Thursday over its new six-week abortion ban, saying the state law is unconstitutional. Announcing the lawsuit at a news conference in Washington, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Texas law’s “unprecedented” design seeks “to prevent women from exercising

By Tami Luhby, CNN The Affordable Care Act’s upcoming open enrollment period is going to look very different this year. It will be the first since 2016 that the official in charge is actively supporting efforts to get people coverage under the landmark law, rather than trying to undermine it. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

By Tami Luhby, CNN The Biden administration is lending its weight to congressional Democrats’ controversial push to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. The measure is a key pillar of the White House’s plan to lower prescription drug prices that was released Thursday and comes as the House starts tackling the issue as it crafts

By Manu Raju, Jeff Zeleny, John Harwood and Kate Sullivan, CNN The White House withdrew the nomination of David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, President Joe Biden announced in a statement Thursday. Biden put the blame on Republicans for the inability to get Chipman confirmed, even though there have

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN US Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Thursday that she had been diagnosed and was successfully treated for breast cancer this year. In a post on Medium, the Minnesota Democrat said doctors discovered “white spots called calcifications during a routine mammogram” in February, leading to her having a biopsy done at Piper Breast

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The lynchpin climate policy of congressional Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill would spur massive job growth over the next decade, a new analysis finds. A report from independent firm Analysis Group, shared exclusively with CNN, finds that if Congress passes a $150 billion Clean Electricity Payment Program, it would increase

By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN Americans are no longer protected from evictions or receiving beefed-up unemployment payments, but they are still benefiting from many other federal coronavirus rescue measures. More support may be on the way, as Democrats on Capitol Hill hammer out a 10-year, $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill that would greatly

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The 2013 Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act still finds new ways to scramble the Justice Department’s enforcement of the landmark 1965 law. As legislation that restores a key element of the law makes its way toward a likely Senate GOP filibuster, the Justice Department is heading into

By Priscilla Alvarez and Daniella Diaz, CNN A group of economists urged congressional leadership to add a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants to a budget reconciliation bill, arguing that it would bolster the US economy, according to a letter obtained by CNN. The more than 50 economists, including former President Barack Obama’s top economic

By Melanie Zanona, CNN The House Democrats’ campaign arm is amplifying their warnings that the GOP’s dangerous rhetoric and misinformation about Covid-19 is threatening to harm public health and thwart economic progress — a preview of how Democrats on the campaign trail plan to address a crisis that is still consuming both the country and

By Kate Bennett, CNN Stephanie Grisham, whose career with the Trump administration included stints as East Wing communications director, White House press secretary and chief of staff to Melania Trump, has written a book that will be released next month, two people familiar with the project tell CNN. Grisham began working on Donald Trump’s presidential

By Lauren Fox and Melanie Zanona, CNN House Republicans could face increased pressure to vote against a bipartisan infrastructure package when they return to Washington later this month with outside groups and conservatives already ramping up the campaign against a $1.2 trillion package they say would be akin to writing Democrats a blank check to

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent In the Senate, all roads lead to Joe Manchin. The West Virginia Democrat and his staff have been engaged for weeks in intensive negotiations with the chairs of key Senate committees ahead of his party’s release of a sprawling bill to expand the social safety net, laying down

By Dan Merica, CNN Former President Barack Obama urges Californians to reject the recall effort targeting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in a television ad released on Wednesday, telling voters that the outcome of Tuesday’s recall election could be the difference “between protecting our kids and putting them at risk.” The ad is the latest example

By Devan Cole, CNN Donald Trump is planning to endorse a lawyer and former Republican Party official in Wyoming in an effort to primary GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic of the former President who has drawn his ire for rejecting his claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, The Washington Post reported

By Phil Mattingly, CNN As the President Joe Biden enters a make-or-break moment for his legislative agenda, the White House has moved toward a clear message for the Democrats it can’t afford to lose: This is a simple choice. The message — that lawmakers are either with Biden or against him, for cutting costs or

By Dan Merica, CNN Republican candidate Larry Elder told reporters on Wednesday that he believes “there might very well be shenanigans” in the election to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom, continuing the baseless GOP effort to undermine elections by suggesting wrongdoing. Elder, the leading Republican candidate to replace Newsom if the recall is successful, made