Ben Leonard

1 week ago | democrats.senate.gov | Lisa Kashinsky |Mia McCarthy |Ben Leonard

By Lisa Kashinsky, Mia McCarthy and Ben Leonard Chuck Schumer tells us Democrats have a ripe new target in their fight against the megabill: leveraging Republican infighting over whether to eviscerate clean-energy credits. In an exclusive interview with Lisa Thursday, the Senate minority leader said his caucus is looking to make it politically untenable for Majority Leader John Thune and his members to follow House Republicans in gutting green credits under the Biden-era climate law.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jordain Carney |Ben Leonard |Grace Yarrow |James Bikales

Pet policy measures stuffed into President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” by House Republicans are now at risk of getting jettisoned by the Senate. From Planned Parenthood to gun silencers to expedited energy permits, Speaker Mike Johnson and committee chairs tucked various provisions into the recently passed megabill to secure votes — and deliver some elusive GOP wins.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ben Leonard |Meredith Lee

The House Energy and Commerce Committee was 16 hours into a nearly 27-hour markup when it became clear that top Republicans on the panel weren’t clear on what key Medicaid provisions in the legislation they were actively debating would actually do.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ben Leonard |Meredith Lee

With House Republicans warring over Medicaid, Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie is playing peacemaker — telling moderates the party isn’t going to gut the safety-net program while also assuring fiscal hawks that Republicans will slash hundreds of billions of dollars. It’s a delicate balancing act for the mild-mannered Kentucky Republican, who’s been largely successful in preventing an all-out, intraconference revolt.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Meredith Lee Hill |Jordain Carney |Ben Leonard

Congressional Republicans agree that the federal government has a spending problem. Now top GOP leaders want to make it someone else’s problem — by shifting some safety-net programs onto state budgets. The plans under discussion could generate hundreds of billions of dollars in savings to finance the GOP’s domestic policy megabill.