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Volk: Paid vacation for legislators while Arizona waits tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
With less than two months before our budget deadline, Republican leaders in the Arizona Legislature hit pause. It’s a paid vacation taken right before the most important deadline of the year – we need to pass a budget by June 30th, or the state government shuts down. — Rep. Kevin Volk

How the Trump administration aims to slash healthcare spending tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Health care has proved a vulnerable target for the firehose of cuts and policy changes President Donald Trump ordered in the name of reducing waste and improving efficiency. But most of the impact isn’t as tangible as, say, higher egg prices at the grocery store.

Rapidly expanding school voucher programs pinch state budgets tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Vouchers and scholarship programs, which use taxpayer money to cover private school tuition, are part of the wider school choice movement, but universal vouchers could drive up costs by creating two parallel education systems — both funded by taxpayers..

Democratic report calls Federal Election Commission a ‘broken’ agency on its 50th anniversary tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Federal Election Commission doesn't have enough commissioners to legally execute any of its high-level duties, but even when fully operational, the FEC is a “broken,” “foundering” and “floundering” agency, according to a scathing assessment of the 50-year-old agency.

DOJ accuses Medicare Advantage insurers of paying ‘kickbacks’ for primo customers tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A lawsuit filed by the Justice Department alleges insurers paid “hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks” to large brokerages - incentives to steer patients into the insurer’s Medicare Advantage plans while also discouraging enrollment of more costly disabled beneficiaries.

2 secretaries of state unpack lessons of proof-of-citizenship laws for voting tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Votebeat had a chance to sit down with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan to discuss one of the most contentious topics in election administration today: laws that require voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship.

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