The Republican proposal relies on deep cuts in spending on state workers, the mentally ill and the disabled, as well as an optimistic revenue projection, and no tax extensions. Democrats attack the plan. Read the Article>

The opposition among Republicans to Mitt Romney’s health care record runs deep, from the visceral vehemence of the grass-roots Tea Party movement to the dressing-down delivered yesterday by the bastion of conservative intellectuals: the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Read the Article>

Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts came here on Thursday to address the biggest threat to his nascent presidential campaign, defending core elements of the health care law enacted in his home state five years ago even as he tried to reassure conservatives that he would work to roll back the similar national overhaul President Obama signed into law last year. Read the Article>

In politics, as in life, what goes around comes around. Many House Republicans have received a raucous reminder in recent weeks. Read the Article>

The president and Republicans can agree on the need for deficit reduction — but he wants to go beyond cutting spending, and they don't want to consider taxes. Read the Article>

The Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, said Thursday that the debt ceiling debate provides Congress with a rare opportunity to make sweeping changes to entitlement programs and spending, and that he would not vote to raise the level without significant budget cuts and revisions to Medicare and Medicaid. Read the Article>

Democrats' healthcare reform law and other recent steps will cut Medicare costs by $120 billion over five years while improving care for seniors, the Obama administration claims in a new report released Thursday. Read the Article>

Eight states – including Florida, Colorado and Georgia – would lose more than 40 percent of their federal funding for Medicaid over the next decade under the House Republicans’ plan to repeal the 2010 federal health law and convert Medicaid into a block grant program, according to an analysis of the plan's effects on states released today. Read the Article>

Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) has thus far refused to make social issues central in his agenda, focusing instead on spending and the debt. But the House today will briefly wade into the social wars of the 1990s, bringing up a controversial anti-abortion bill. Read the Article>

Opinion by Jonathan Cohn Read the Article>