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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
By picking Tom Price to lead HHS, Trump shows he's absolutely serious about dismantling Obamacare — Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), President-elect Donald Trump's pick for health and human services secretary, already has a plan for how to abolish Obamacare. — The Washington Post reported late Monday …
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Trump names Rep. Tom Price as next HHS secretary
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Obamacare is probably toast. And a lot of poor, white Trump voters will get hurt by it.
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Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Trump's Pick For HHS Signals He Is Dead Serious About Repealing Obamacare
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Here's how Trump's HHS pick wants to replace Obamacare
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David Dayen / The Nation:
Donald Trump Is Coming for Your Medicare
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump's ‘Thank You Tour’ Said to Start in Ohio on Thursday — Aide says the lap through swing states isn't victory tour — Republican credited rallies for win over Hillary Clinton — President-elect Donald Trump will begin a “Thank You Tour” on Thursday in Cincinnati …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls for jailing, revoking citizenship of flag-burners — Burning an American flag should be a crime, President-elect Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning, punishable by a forfeiture of U.S. citizenship or a year in jail. — “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag …
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
McMullin: All Americans must stand up to Trump — for the president-elect's proposal to punish protesters who burn the American flag. — The former independent presidential candidate went on a tweetstorm against Trump, urging Americans to resist the president-elect's “rhetorical and literal violations” of constitutional rights.
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David Wright / CNN:
Trump: Burn the flag, go to jail
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Elaine Chao expected to be Trump's transportation secretary — Former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is set to be announced later Tuesday as President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Transportation, multiple sources familiar with the decision confirmed Tuesday morning.
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New York Times:
Elaine Chao Is Said to Be Trump's Pick for Transportation Secretary — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Elaine L. Chao, the former Labor secretary under George W. Bush, to head the Department of Transportation, elevating someone who has been a fixture …
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GovExec.com:
GSA's Trump Hotel Lease Debacle — As the clock ticks down towards President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, the window is rapidly closing on the General Services Administration's opportunity to extricate itself from the Trump Organization's lease of the historic Post Office Pavilion.
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's DC Hotel Is Weeks Away From Violating Its Government Lease
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Amanda Taub / New York Times:
How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’ — WASHINGTON — Yascha Mounk is used to being the most pessimistic person in the room. Mr. Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard, has spent the past few years challenging one of the bedrock assumptions of Western politics …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Grassley wants hearing on Trump AG before inauguration — (R-Iowa) is signaling he wants to move quickly on President-elect Donald Trump — (R-Ala.) as attorney general. — “Historically, at least in the case of [John] Ashcroft and in the case of [Eric] Holder, we've had the hearings prior …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Grassley planning rapid confirmation process for Sessions
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Immigration hard-liner Sessions could execute crackdown as AG
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Jamie Satterfield / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Next Slide — More than 14,000 people had been evacuated from Gatlinburg alone, with hundreds of them seeking refuge in emergency shelters. — Beason and Hensley, who arrived in East Tennessee a month ago from Mississippi and were staying at the Bedrock Motel, said they left …
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New York Times:
Donald Trump's Lies About the Popular Vote — One big fear in the weeks leading up to the presidential election was that Donald Trump would try to delegitimize the results by claiming rampant voter fraud — a bogus specter he had raised throughout the campaign, particularly as his polling numbers got worse.
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Will The Recounts Show?
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
House Dems brace for Wednesday's secret ballot — House Democrats return to Washington on Tuesday grappling over the best course for the party's future. — Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), facing a challenge from Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), is seen as the heavy favorite in elections on Wednesday …
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The Independent:
Concerns have been raised by protestors on social media, who claim that people are arriving at the Standing Rock demonstration for the “cultural experience” and treating it like Burning Man festival. — Protestor Alicia Smith wrote on Facebook: “On my way back from the camps.
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Former Utah Governor Huntsman Considers U.S. Senate Run in 2018 — Decision depends in part on whether Hatch seeks eighth term — Huntsman served Obama administration as ambassador to China — Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman said he's weighing a run for the U.S. Senate in 2018 …
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Southern Poverty Law Center:
The Trump Effect: The Impact of The 2016 Presidential Election on Our Nation's Schools — In the first days after the 2016 presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project administered an online survey to K-12 educators from across the country.
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Associated Press:
US investigating leak related to Petraeus case — David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP) (Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) — The Defense Department is conducting a leaks investigation related to the sex scandal that led to the resignation …
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Southern Poverty Law Center:
Ten Days After: Harassment and Intimidation in the Aftermath of the Election — Just a week before the November 8th election, attackers set a church in Greenville, Mississippi, on fire. The historically black church was targeted in what authorities believe was an act of voter intimidation …
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Cathy Young / The Hill:
‘Fake news’ isn't the problem — mainstream news with an agenda is — “Fake news” has been a big news story for the past week. Hoaxes and fabrications hatched by clickbait-hungry websites — or, some reports say, by the Kremlin propaganda machine—have been blamed for Donald Trump — 's election victory.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump and Bloomberg seek to bury the hatchet in lengthy phone call — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg — a self-made billionaire who considered mounting his own third party presidential bid this year but ultimately quelled his own ambitions for fear of helping to elect Donald Trump — phoned the president-elect on Monday.
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