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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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U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana:
Donnelly Announces He Will Oppose Nomination of Tom Price for HHS Secretary, Cites Medicare Privatization — Senator has been staunch supporter of Medicare and vocal opponent of efforts to end Medicare as we know it — Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly announced …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Many People Just Voted Themselves Out of Health Care? (Updated) (Updated again) (And again) — My original update was right! Screwed up dates. So it's back to around 5 1/2 million Trump chumps. — As Greg Sargent points out, the choice of Tom Price for HHS probably means the death of Obamacare.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Here's how Trump's HHS pick wants to replace Obamacare — By tapping House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price to serve as his Secretary of Health and Human Services, President-elect Trump has added to his team one of the most serious and knowledgeable Republicans on healthcare policy …
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
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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Balloon Juice and CBS Miami
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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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Dem senator: I'll ‘beat the hell out of you’ for burning flag — (D-W.Va.) lashed out at flag burning on Tuesday after President-elect Donald Trump — raised the issue. — “It's a First Amendment right, but you do it in front of me, I'm going to beat the hell out of you,” Manchin said, according to a Roll Call reporter.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell pushes back at Trump on flag-burning comments
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
McMullin: All Americans must stand up to Trump
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David Wright / CNN:
Trump: Burn the flag, go to jail
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USA Today:
Trump denounces flag burning
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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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Susan Page / USA Today:
Gingrich calls Trump tweet about vote fraud a big mistake — WASHINGTON — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich calls Donald Trump a potentially transformative president. But he shouldn't have sent out that tweet alleging election fraud. — In an interview Tuesday with Capital Download …
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Gingrich: Jill Stein represents ‘nut wing of American politics’
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Deadline for Wisconsin Recount Payment Looming
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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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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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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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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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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
House GOP leader: Repeal ObamaCare now, replace it later — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that Republicans could repeal ObamaCare even before they have come up with a replacement. — “I don't think you have to wait,” McCarthy told reporters.
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
BET founder says Trump is not a racist, and stocks are right to rally post-election — Democratic media mogul Bob Johnson, who met with President-elect Donald Trump earlier this month, told CNBC on Tuesday the post-election rally in the stock market has been a reaction to having a businessman in the White House.
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JJ Gallagher / ABC News:
‘GMA’ Exclusive: Husband of Sherri Papini Speaks Out About His Family's Ordeal — The husband of a Sherri Papini, a California mom who went missing for three weeks after allegedly being kidnapped while out for a jog, is speaking out about his family's ordeal in an exclusive statement to “Good Morning America.”
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Republicans block program to register 2 million Illinois voters — A vote to override the governor's veto narrowly failed. — On Tuesday, the Illinois General Assembly narrowly voted to uphold the governor's veto of a bill that would have automatically registered two million voters across the state.
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Chicago Sun Times
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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