House GOP Challenges White House Over Debt Law Waivers Used In Home Health Rule

House Budget Committee Republicans are questioning the Biden administration's interpretation of a 2023 debt limit law provision that permits exemptions from proposed budget-balancing measures for certain regulatory actions. The White House recently utilized this provision to waive budget-balancing requirements for a November CMS rule updating Medicare home health care reimbursements. The "administrative pay-as-you-go" provision in the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 was designed to mitigate the financial impact of regulatory actions by requiring federal agencies to propose spending cuts or...