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Now that Obamacare lacks the individual mandate tax that prompted the Supreme Court to hold it constitutional, 20 attorneys general are again challenging the law. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel are leading the lawsuit. They were joined by colleagues from across the country Tuesday at The Heritage Foundation, contending…

A judge who is part of a secret court system criticized the Obama administration for “an institutional lack of candor” in seeking warrants to spy on U.S. citizens. This scrutiny came in the form of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court report, issued last spring in an investigation that began well before most of the public…

The Congressional Budget Office’s overestimation of future enrollment in Obamacare raises questions about the agency’s commitment to nonpartisanship, one of the Senate’s prominent budget experts says. The CBO describes itself as being “strictly nonpartisan,”  Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., told the budget office’s director, but the Obamacare estimates appeared to favor the Obama administration’s policy stand…

Congress needs to finish the job of repealing and replacing Obamacare in 2018, Sen. Ted Cruz says. Republicans in Congress last year failed to craft a comprehensive repeal-and-replace bill for Obamacare that both the House and the Senate could agree on. “I think we got very close last time, and that’s something I’m continuing to…

In late 2011, President Barack Obama’s White House promoted the hashtag #40Dollars to get the word out about an extra $40 per paycheck Americans would save in the temporary payroll tax cut. “I’m not sure that $1,000 … goes very [far] for almost anyone,” @DWSTweets says. Less than seven years later, prominent liberals are scoffing at…

Many states are eager to reverse the damage from Obamacare in 2018, but in some cases, they will need help from Congress, leading health care experts say. “A lot of states would like to act in 2018, but there is a lot of uncertainty while they are waiting on Congress and the administration,” Grace-Marie Turner,…

Americans signed up at record rates during the 2018 open enrollment period for former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, Adam Hodge, former Democratic National Committee communications director, said on Fox News Tuesday. “Obamacare is more popular now than it’s ever been,” Hodge said. “We’ve seen record sign-ups during the open enrollment period, that the Trump administration…

President Donald Trump claimed the GOP tax bill that Congress passed Wednesday “essentially” repeals Obamacare. “We—I hate to say this—but we essentially repealed Obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate, which was terrible,” said Trump during remarks after passage of the bill. Verdict: False Republicans voted to repeal the individual mandate—the requirement that Americans buy health insurance or face a penalty—but…

Republicans in Congress are working to chip away at programs mandated under Obamacare following their inability to repeal the health care law. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., introduced a bill Tuesday to end what they called Obamacare’s “failing” plans that competed with private health insurers in the states. “Multistate plans were…