Happening now: Biden delivers remarks and signs executive order to reopen Affordable Care Act enrollment
From CNN s Tami Luhby and Betsy Klein Pool
President Biden just signed two health care executive actions, including one reopening enrollment on the federal Affordable Care Act exchanges.
Biden said the orders are aimed at undoing the damage Trump has done. There s nothing new we re doing here other than restoring the Affordable Care Act and restoring the Medicaid to the way it was before Trump became President, Biden said from the Oval Office. Biden said Trump made both programs “more inaccessible, more expensive, and more difficult for people to qualify.”
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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who is presiding over former President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, returned home on Tuesday night after an unexpected trip to the hospital earlier in the day, a spokesman said.
“After getting test results back, and after a thorough examination, Senator Leahy now is home. He looks forward to getting back to work. Patrick and Marcelle deeply appreciate the well wishes they have received tonight,” spokesman David Carle said in a statement.
The update on Leahy’s condition comes after an earlier report that the Vermont lawmaker had been admitted to the hospital just hours after presiding over the opening of Trump’s Senate impeachment trial. Carle said in a statement at the time that the senator was not feeling well and the Capitol physician had recommended the trip to the hospital “out of an abundance of caution.”
West Virginia senator Joe Manchin (D.) said he will defend the congressional filibuster despite pressure from liberal activists to abolish the legislative maneuver.
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