Musk staffer 'mistakenly' given ability to edit Treasury Department payment system, legal filings say - ABC News

The high-profile mistake at BFS -- which effectively serves as the federal government's checkbook by disbursing more than $5 trillion annually -- comes as a federal judge in New York is weighing whether to continue to block individuals associated with Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/musk-staffer-mistakenly-ability-edit-treasury-department-payment/story

 

‘Make money by denying care’: new US rules aim to curb use of approval by private health insurances

The administration's newly finalized rules will require insurance companies who work in federal programs to speed up the approval process and make decisions within 72 hours for urgent requests. The regulations will also require companies to give a specific reason as to why a request was denied and publicly report denial metrics. The regulations will primarily go into effect in 2026...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/02/new-federal-rule-insurance-authorization-surgery-medication

Medicare Advantage plans denied 2M prior authorization requests: analysis

But 82% of those appeals resulted in fully or partially overturning the original denial...

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/03/medicare-advantage-prior-authorization-requests

Justice Dept. Told Mueller to Probe Alleged Manafort/Russia Collusion, Document Shows - The Daily Beast

A declassified 2017 memo has revealed that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller that he should investigate allegations that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was “colluding with Russian government officials” to interfere in the 2016 presidential election....

https://www.thedailybeast.com/justice-dept-told-mueller-to-probe-alleged-manafortrussia-collusion-document-shows

Trump just accused Comey of lying under oath. (He misquoted ‘Fox & Friends’ to do it.) - The Washington Post: Analysis |

Trump mangled a senator's question to the fired FBI director to claim that Comey had committed a crime. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/03/18/trump-just-accused-comey-of-lying-under-oath-he-misquoted-fox-friends-to-do-it/

House Democrat accuses Paul Ryan of stripping war authorization repeal in "dead of night" - CBS News

A House Democrat whose amendment to repeal the 2001 authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) that was wrapped into a spending bill is accusing Speaker Paul Ryan of stripping it from the measure "in the dead of night."

Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California, tweeted about the development late Tuesday after Republicans on the House Rules Committee removed it from the 2018 defense spending bill and replaced it with another amendment....
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-democrat-accuses-paul-ryan-of-stripping-war-authorization-repeal-in-dead-of-night/