Victoria Knight
@victoriaregisk
congressional health care reporter @axios & an occasional Capitol food critic. alum: @utknoxville & @universityofga. email: [email protected]
Honored that Axios DC let me write a eulogy for Hill Country Barbecue, and particularly for the live band karaoke, which was a Wednesday night staple for Hill journalists & staffers. Read on for my dispatch from the last Wednesday karaoke night ever! 🥲 axios.com/local/washingt…
Crapo to reporters today on ACA subsidies, not a hard no: “Everything in our jurisdiction is open for discussion….I can’t tell you how it’s shaping up yet, it hasn’t shaped up yet.”
Collins seemed pretty dug in against the rescissions package at lunch, per multiple sources familiar Murkowski, McConnell said nothing Leadership is whipping axios.com/2025/07/15/sen…
Latest lobbying disclosures for Q2 2025: Hospital and insurer groups FAH and AHIP both almost doubled their spending in anticipation of reconciliation bill’s Medicaid changes PhRMA also upped spending amid threats of tariffs/Most Favored Nation policy axios.com/pro/health-car…
Thune on Trump’s demand to cancel August recess: “We're thinking about it. We want to get as many noms through the pipeline as we can” He told me he’s talked to Trump about it
CBO’s updated estimate on the OBBBA says 10 million people will be uninsured by 2034 due to the bill. That’s down from the previous 11.8 million estimate, and due to the Senate parliamentarian striking the provision that would have reduced FMAP for states who covered immigrants.
Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Relative to CBO’s January 2025 Baseline cbo.gov/publication/61…
SCOOP w/@ashleyrgold: What's inside Trump's 20-page AI action plan. +EOs on "woke" AI, exports and infrastructure in the works. axios.com/pro/tech-polic…
Latest for @AP: ICE officials will have access to all 79 million Medicaid enrollees' personal data, including addresses and ethnicities, according to an extraordinary agreement signed on Monday. w/ @kimberlykindy apnews.com/article/immigr…
Senate takes step forward on foreign aid, public broadcasting clawback JD Vance broke the tie, with Collins, Murkowski and McConnell voting no with Democrats axios.com/2025/07/16/sen…
Sen. Lisa Murkowski told reporters she felt the “same way,” about the rescissions package that she has. Last week she had told reporters she couldn’t support it as is. I asked if PEPFAR carveout could sway her vote at all, and she said, “no” Seems to be remaining a “no” on it
Josh Hawley seeks to reverse the Medicaid cuts he voted for trib.al/Ti46ek3
OMB Director Russ Vought came out after GOP Senate lunches today and said that $400M of PEPFAR cuts would be stripped out of the rescissions package in sub amendment. That cuts package to $9B from $9.4B. But the $500M in global health rescissions remain. axios.com/pro/health-car…
Some House side eateries, including Rayburn and Dunkin, will start closing next week (July 24) for renovations for the new food options to start, per email forwarded to me from a House staffer. Others will close on August 8 during recess, like Longworth and Common Grounds.
Congress has a long history of putting off scheduled health care cuts, from "doc fix" to DSH payments to hospitals.... could the provider tax changes be next to be delayed and delayed? Hospitals, and lawmakers like Hawley, will at least try axios.com/pro/health-car…
After Johnson signs the bill YMCA starts blaring over the speakers.
One Big Beautiful Bill passes with the first ever set of federal Medicaid work requirements starting end of 2026. Also the stricter Senate provider taxes phased in over the years.
The House concurred in the Senate amendment and passed H.R. 1 by a vote of 218-214.
Officially, two Black men hold the record for longest speeches in the House and Senate, respectively: House Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries with a “magic minute” record of 8 hours and 44 minutes Sen. Cory Booker with his marathon speech that lasted 25 hours and 5 minutes
E&C Chairman Brett Guthrie makes it official: Rep. Morgan Griffith is the new chair of the E&C health subcommittee. Rep. Diana Harshbarger is going to be vice chair for health subcommittee. Rep. Neal Dunn moves to vice chairman of the whole committee.
Earlier tonight the House set a new record: a 7 hour and 24 minute vote on an amendment, making it the longest continuous vote in history. Another procedural vote then started at 9:32 PM. That vote has been open for nearly three hours. If this vote stays open until 4:57 AM,…
It’s official: At 7 hours and 7 minutes (and counting), this vote on an amendment from @virginiafoxx is now the longest continuous House vote in history