As members of the 118th Congress returned to Washington this week, everyone is focused on raising the nation’s debt limit, especially following Treasury Secretary Jane Yellen’s announcement that her agency would begin taking extraordinary measures to prevent the government from triggering a default.
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health to defend the HHS fiscal year 2026 budget proposal, and faced criticism from several Democratic lawmakers on what they described as a lack of transparency and scientific rigor in the agency’s recent decisions.
