Joining me now is former Health and Human Services Secretary during the Obama administration, Kathleen Sibilius. Uh, Madam Secretary, thank you for joining us. >> Glad to be here.>> Um, the Senate gave themselves a December deadline to try to address health care costs, but open enrollment obviously is already underway now. Is it already too late to address this issue for people next year. >> Well, it's very um tricky.people are going to have to at least shop online. Now, I think they may hold off to the las ...

Let me first welcome House Republicans back to the Congress after their 7w week taxpayerf funed vacation. These people have been missing in action, absent without official leave, running scared, but they can no longer hide. >> Minority Leader Hakee Jeff yesterday on Capitol Hill. It comes as Speaker Mike Johnson today is expected to gave in the first full session of the House since September 19th. He's also expected to swear in a Democrat from Arizona who won her special election days after Johnson shut dow ...

Senator, what are you doing in Washington DC on a Friday night. >> Waiting to see if we're going to vote again this weekend and if Republicans will accept our offer to reopen the government and extend the Affordable Care Act tax subsidies that help make it affordable for millions of Americans. I know today they rejected it out of hand, but after my colleague, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester, who you just had on the show, uh went over and talked to a big group of House members, she came back and shared with me ...

Democrats in Congress have sent a letter to the former Prince Andrew calling on him to testify before the House Oversight Committee about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, a foreigner cannot be compelled to comply with any such request. And Andrew has always denied knowing anything about a sex trafficking ring, denies that he ever did anything wrong.But just the request has put the push for release of the Epstein files back in the headlines here and abroad. The ranking Democrat on th ...

It is day 261 of the second Trump administration and this evening, Texas National Guard troops have officially entered the city of Chicago despite an ongoing lawsuit over the legality of their deployment. FBI director Cash Patel posted this on social media. Quote, Chicago will be saved and this FBI will continue to crush violent crime there and around the country.End quote. Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Gnome traveled to Portland, Oregon to visit the local ICE facility as the administration ...

Standard Medicare Part B premiums are expected to rise by 11.6% next year, so much or all of Social Security's projected cost-of-living adjustment increase for 2026 will be eaten up by health care costs. https://t.co/EgoxsOjOEq ...