WASHINGTON — A day later, the confrontation between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the White House was still reverberating.

By now, most of you know what happened: Pelosi and other congressional leaders of both parties came to the White House on Wednesday to discuss the fallout and necessary response to Trump’s sudden decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Turkey had immediately invaded and attacked the Kurds who had been American allies in the war against ISIS.

It didn’t go so well. Trump denigrated Pelosi as a “third-grade politician” and she and some other Democrats responded by walking out of the meeting. Later, Pelosi said Trump had a “meltdown.” Trump called Pelosi “unhinged.”

Republicans trying to hold onto seats in the state Assembly and reclaim a seat in the state Senate are staring at a big cash disadvantage heading into New Jersey’s legislative elections next month.

GOP candidates have raised just about $3.3 million and spent less than half of that — $1.4 million — according to the latest fundraising figures from the state’s nonpartisan Election Law Enforcement Commission.

At the same time, Democrats hoping to expand their majority in the Assembly and unseat the chamber’s Republican leader have raised $11 million and spent $5.7 million.

WASHINGTON — As his fellow Democrats clashed over health care and guns, Cory Booker invoked Yogi Berra in warning that they were giving aid and comfort to President Donald Trump.

“As a great New Jerseyan, Yogi Berra, said, ‘I am having deja vu all over again,’” Booker said during the fourth Democratic presidential debate, held Tuesday in Ohio. “I’m having deja vu all over again, first of all, because I saw this play in 2016′s election.”

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were hammered over their support for a Medicare for All plan that would eliminate private insurance. Pete Buttigieg and Beto O’Rourke later argued over whether to confiscate assault weapons. Booker refused to be drawn into that fight.

Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday defended the decision to spend at least $1 million in taxpayer money on a larger satellite governor’s office in Newark.

Murphy’s main office is in Trenton, the state capital. But he also has run a second office out of Newark. Now, as first reported on by NJ Advance Media, the Democratic governor is upgrading to a larger space in Newark.

It will cost more than $145,000 a year in rent, according to lease records — about $100,000 more than the current space in Newark.

By Eileen Appelbaum

Most people assume that if they are treated at a hospital in their insurance network, the doctors they see will accept their insurance. But that’s not always the case. Since 2010, an increasing number of hospitals have outsourced their emergency rooms, radiology, anesthesiology, and other specialized services to physician staffing firms. Patients who need these critical services may inadvertently receive care from a doctor outside of their insurance network and find that they owe thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in surprise medical bills.

Rates of surprise billing are highest for insured patients treated in emergency rooms. A Stanford University study of millions of ER visits found that more than 2-in-5 (43%) visits resulted in a surprise medical bill in 2016. A person who urgently needs care is in no position to argue and has no choice about either the ambulance, the hospital, or the ER they are taken to. One estimate is that almost 65 percent of U.S. hospitals have ERs staffed by outside firms. As might be expected, surprise billing is most likely to occur in these hospitals.

Horror stories abound. A woman in Hoboken left the emergency room of a hospital when she discovered that the plastic surgeon who would see her was not in her insurance network, and sought treatment at an in-network facility instead. Despite not having received a diagnosis at the first hospital and having left the ER without receiving any treatment, she got a bill from the hospital for $5,751. Her insurance plan paid the hospital $862, which it deemed a “reasonable and appropriate” fee for the services the woman received. That left her stuck with a bill for $4,989.