Lawmakers have many issues to contemplate when considering an extension of the enhanced subsidies, including the sizable cost and increased risks of fraud associated with an extension. But they should also recognize that a straight extension of the enhanced subsidy regime would continue to send federal funds to plans that cover abortion, while doing nothing regarding the emerging blue state strategy to circumvent pro-life protections.| The Center for Renewing America
A rescission is a viable tool for carrying out the broader political mandate to curb unnecessary spending. If the executive branch decides to use this process, the deployment of a rescission with fewer than forty-five days remaining in the fiscal year is a statutorily and constitutionally valid strategy.| The Center for Renewing America
Medicaid has extended health-care coverage to millions of people beyond the intended initial population of children, the elderly, the disabled, and those who are truly in need. It has instead become a benefit hammock for many who would otherwise not qualify.| The Center for Renewing America
Opponents of reform claim that any changes to the Medicaid program are massive “cuts” that will cause beneficiaries harm. In reality, the opposite is true: Failing to change a program with such rapidly exploding costs will only result in the unsustainability that ultimately harms its recipients.| The Center for Renewing America
While the Biden Administration presented the Inflation Reduction Act as a means of containing the record inflation destroying household incomes, the legislation was in truth a legislative vehicle for enacting large swaths of the radical Green New Deal.| The Center for Renewing America
If leadership succeeds in combining annual spending caps and the debt limit in a single bill for the second year in a row, they can argue the precedent is the new normal. Leadership would usurp even more authority from individual legislators, diminishing our republican form of government.| The Center for Renewing America
