memeorandum: Statement by the Press Secretary on Today's CBO Report and the Affordable Care Act (The White House)

8:10 PM ET, February 4, 2014

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Erik Wasson / The Hill:

CBO: O-Care slowing growth, contributing to job losses — The new healthcare law will slow economic growth over the next decade, costing the nation about 2.5 million jobs and contributing to a $1 trillion increase in projected deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report released Tuesday.

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CBO's Publications:

The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2014 to 2024 — The federal budget deficit has fallen sharply during the past few years, and it is on a path to decline further this year and next year. CBO estimates that under current law, the deficit will total $514 billion in fiscal year 2014, compared with $1.4 trillion in 2009.

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Annie Lowrey / New York Times:

Health Care Law May Result in 2 Million Fewer Full-Time Workers — WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act will result in more than 2 million fewer full-time workers in the next several years, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

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Washington Post:

CBO: Health-care law will mean 2 million fewer workers — The Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by more than 2 million in coming years, congressional budget analysts said Tuesday in the most detailed analysis of the law's impact on jobs.

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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:

The Best Of The Bad Reporting On Obamacare, The CBO And Jobs — The Congressional Budget Office issued a new report Tuesday on the federal budget deficit, Obamacare and jobs — and Official Washington exploded. — It all centered on one line about how the health care reform law would affect employment.

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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
White House On Obamacare Report: If There Were No Medicare, 95-Year-Olds Would Work More

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Glenn Kessler / The Fact Checker:
No, CBO did not say Obamacare will kill 2 million jobs

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The White House:
Statement by the Press Secretary on Today's CBO Report and the Affordable Care Act

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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Why the new CBO report on Obamacare is good news

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Politico: Report reignites debate over Obamacare and jobs

Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:

Brent Bozell Will Try To Remove Every GOP Leader From Office — There's no shortage of conservative groups that take aim at Republicans, be it to drag incumbents further to the right or out of office entirely. But now one group is targeting the biggest fish they can fry.

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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:

McConnell Pours Cold Water On Immigration Reform: ‘Irresolvable’ — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday said immigration reform poses an “irresolvable conflict” between the two chambers and predicted that it won't be completed in 2014. — “I think we have a sort …

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House GOP finalizes debt-limit playbook

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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
First on CNN: Conservative group pushes to topple GOP leaders in Congress

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Daniel Newhauser / Roll Call:
Boehner: 'No Sense Picking a Fight We Can't Win' on Debt Limit (Updated)

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell: Immigration reform not going to happen in 2014

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Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Rogers: Greenwald illegally sold docs — A top lawmaker argued Tuesday that journalist Glenn Greenwald is illegally selling stolen material by asking news organizations to pay for access to U.S. intelligence secrets taken from the National Security Agency. — “For personal gain …

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Associated Press:
US Official: Snowden Leaks Lead to Pentagon Change

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Paul Schindler / gaycitynews.com:

LGBTQ Leaders, Allies Call on Mayor to Ban Uniformed City Personnel in Discriminatory St. Pat's Parade — Saved under Breaking News, Editor's Letter, Legal, NYC, Politics — More than twenty years ago, the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization sought to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue and was excluded.

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Jill Colvin / Politicker:
De Blasio Won't Stop Uniformed Workers from Marching in St. Patrick's Day Parade

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The Hill:

Greens warn base will sit out election — Environmental groups are warning President Obama that his liberal base might stay home on Election Day if he approves the Keystone XL oil pipeline. — Proponents of the $5.4 billion Canada-to-Texas pipeline say their case is buoyed …

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Curtis Williams / ogj.com:
Chu: Decision to build Keystone XL pipeline a political one

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Fox News:

TRANSCRIPT: Full interview between President Obama and Bill O'Reilly — BILL O'REILLY - One of my, uh, points on the Factor is that poverty is driven by the dissolution of the American family, that is the prime mover, okay. On your watch, median income has dropped seventeen percent among working families in this country.

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Bill O'Reilly / Fox News:
Unedited: Bill O'Reilly's EXCLUSIVE Interview with President Obama

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Ruth R. Wisse / Wall Street Journal:

Ruth Wisse: The Dark Side of the War on ‘the One Percent’ — Stoking class envy is a step in a familiar, dangerous and highly incendiary process. — Two phenomena: anti-Semitism and American class conflict. Is there any connection between them? In a letter to this newspaper …

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Rose Pastore / Popular Science:

How A Simple New Invention Seals A Gunshot Wound In 15 Seconds — An Oregon startup has developed a pocket-size device that uses tiny sponges to stop bleeding fast. — When a soldier is shot on the battlefield, the emergency treatment can seem as brutal as the injury itself.

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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

Obama Aides Doubt Clinton Strategy — “She doesn't need this,” says Benenson. — Mike Theiler / Reuters — Top advisers and former aides to Barack Obama say Hillary Clinton is repeating the mistakes she made in 2008, building a machine in lieu of a message and lumbering toward …

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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:

The Case for Socialized Law — Inequality has bent American justice. Here's a radical way to fix it. — Maintain and refine, maintain and refine. That's how progressives talk about the welfare state these days. After nearly a century of expanding government with programs like Social Security …

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Todd Starnes / Fox News:

You can't celebrate America, school says — Students and parents at a Colorado high school are outraged after administrators turned down their request for a spirit week day honoring America because it might offend non-Americans. — “They said they didn't want to offend anyone from other countries …

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Dan Merica / CNN:

D.C. takes step toward legalizing pot for private use — (CNN) - The Washington City Council passed a measure on Tuesday that would move the District of Columbia one step closer to decriminalizing marijuana in most cases. — Members approved the bill 11-to-1 in the first of two votes likely this month.

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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:

Sandra Fluke files in California for congressional bid — Women's rights activist Sandra Fluke appears to be moving forward with a run for Congress. — Fluke has filed with the California state Democratic Party to seek its endorsement in the race for retiring Rep. Henry Waxman's (D-Calif.) …