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Brickbat: Declared Dead
In Pace, Florida, the Social Security Administration mistakenly declared Patsy Rosher dead after her husband died, which led to termination of her Social Security, Medicare and supplemental insurance benefits just as she was…
Javier Milei’s libertarian policies win shock election
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch are joined by associate editor Liz Wolfe to discuss Argentine President Javier Milei's strong midterm showing and what it suggests about the durability of…
The president has too many ’emergency’ powers
Usually when we're in the midst of a government shutdown, I'm in a good mood. Sure, recent shutdowns haven't accomplished much in terms of shrinking the cost or scope of the federal government in the long run,…
100+ pro-life groups sound alarm over Democrat push to fund abortion through Obamacare
Fri Oct 24, 2025 - 4:20 pm EDT WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Over 100 pro-life groups appealed to Congress to stand strong against demands to continue abortion funding under the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA), better…
Jeff Merkley rings alarm on Trump, but executive power abuse runs deeper
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D–Ore.) took to the Senate floor on Tuesday around 6:30 p.m. to "ring the alarm" on what he described as President Donald Trump's "tightening authoritarian grip on the country."…
Government shutdown enters third week, no resolution in sight
I'm forgetting we ever had a government: Isn't it wild how the government shutdown keeps going on and on and yet it's barely driving the news? To be fair, "government shutdown" was always a stupid…
Don’t extend Obamacare subsidies to end the government shutdown
The federal government's not-really-a-shutdown lingers on, largely driven by Democrats' insistence on extending pandemic-era subsidies that conceal the real cost of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act…
Democrats’ bill would let federal workers skip paying rent during government shutdowns
Since the federal government isn't currently paying its bills during the shutdown, Senate Democrats think federal workers shouldn't have to either. Sen. Brian Schatz (D–Hawaii) and 17 of his Democratic Senate…
The federal workforce will be a little smaller after the government shutdown ends
As promised—or threatened, if you wandered over to Reason by accident—the Trump administration has started using the government sort-of-shutdown as an opportunity to engage in mass layoffs of federal employees. In the game of…
Trump admin ending LGBT, ‘family planning’ programs due to government shutdown
Tue Oct 14, 2025 - 11:35 am EDT WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Trump administration has laid off thousands of Department of Health and Human Services workers due to the government shutdown, including those that work on…
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