House Democratic leadership introduced legislation that aims to update and strengthen the Affordable Care Act at the same time that the White House announced that it would move forward with efforts to repeal and replace the ACA. The Republican-controlled Senate Budget Committee held a markup on March 27-28th and approved on a party line vote a proposed FY 2020 budget resolution with broad tax and spending goals for the next five years. The non-binding plan includes a reconciliation bill that would include $94 billion in deficit reductions over five years, with more than half of that coming from Senate Finance Committee issues. Read More.
