Roughly 5 million people are projected to lose ACA marketplace coverage in 2025 after enhanced premium tax credits expired. The KFF analysis framing this as a market trend obscures a simpler truth: Congress knew the deadline and chose not to act.
The Senate's seventh war powers vote on Iran failed 49 to 50 — the closest margin yet. Republican defections are growing with each attempt, and the constitutional question of who authorizes this war remains unanswered.
Pete Hegseth told Congress the White House doesn't need war authorization for Iran. What he described is the effective abolition of Article I's war powers clause — stated plainly, in a congressional hearing, with no apparent consequence.
Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell leave Congress the same day — one after admitting an affair with a staffer who died by suicide, one after a years-long ethics probe. Neither faced a formal sanction. That's not accountability. That's the system working exactly as designed.
The Title X program providing free reproductive healthcare to 2.3 million low-income Americans expires March 31 with no explanation from Congress, threatening a public health catastrophe.