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Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Does Stephen Miller Speak for Trump? Or Vice Versa? — The 31-year-old is a driving force behind the White House's policies. — by — From Subscribe Reprints — Stephen Miller's corner office in the West Wing of the White House is utterly barren—no pictures on the walls …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Fight for Obamacare Has Turned — The campaign to let 20 million Americans keep their health insurance is working. — It still has a long way to go, and it's not guaranteed to succeed. But the progress of the last couple months is remarkable. — Thanks in part to a surge of activism …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Are Republicans Ready To Charge Ahead On Obamacare Repeal?
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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Snyder praises Trump, says Obamacare not working
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MJ Lee / CNN:
Freedom Caucus chair would vote against draft Obamacare repeal bill
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Trump's speech can't mend GOP schisms on Obamacare
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The ‘Kellyanne Conway on the couch’ controversy is so incredibly dumb — On Monday night, this photo began making the rounds on the Internet: — The photo, taken Monday, shows White House counselor Kellyanne Conway perched on a couch in the Oval Office as President Trump stands behind …
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James Gordon / Daily Mail:
Make yourself at home, Kellyanne! White House adviser is taken to task after she makes herself comfortable on the Oval Office couch while wearing her heels as Trump hosts leaders of black colleges — Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, was seen in a series of photos in the Oval Office on Monday
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Alex Guillén / Politico:
Sources: White House proposes to cut EPA budget by quarter — The White House has proposed slashing EPA's budget by about a quarter and eventually eliminating 1 in 5 of the agency's workers, according to sources familiar with the budget proposal sent to EPA on Monday.
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CNN:
Sources: Trump signed off on checking White House staffers' phones
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump says Obama is helping to organize protests against his presidency
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Trump says Obama behind leaks
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — President Trump: Oscars ‘Were Focused so Hard on Politics’ They Could Not Get the Basics of the Ceremony Right — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in the Oval Office, said that the Academy Awards failure on Sunday evening …
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — President Trump: New York Times ‘Intent Is so Evil and so Bad,’ ‘They Write Lies’ — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump told Breitbart News in an exclusive Oval Office interview that the “intent” of the New York Times in its negative coverage of him is “so evil and so bad” and that “they write lies.”
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump budget faces GOP resistance — Congressional Republicans on Monday panned Donald Trump's call to finance a military buildup by slashing domestic agencies and ignoring entitlement programs — undermining the president's budget even before it's been finalized.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Trump and Paul Ryan Head for a Clash Over the Budget, and Ideology
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Trump's Budget Is Aspirational. Reality in Congress Will Change It.
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Kansas City Star:
Trump's silence on deadly Olathe shooting is disquieting — By The Kansas City Star editorial board — At some point, embarrassingly late begins to verge on something more disquieting. — President Donald Trump has silently planted himself in that space.
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
'He's a Performance Artist Pretending to be a Great Manager' — More than 27 years before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, Bruce Nobles, then the president of the Trump Shuttle airline, assessed with some befuddlement the business and managerial practices of his boss.
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NBC News:
Yemen SEAL Raid Has Yielded No Significant Intelligence: Officials — Last month's deadly commando raid in Yemen, which cost the lives of a U.S. Navy SEAL and a number of children, has so far yielded no significant intelligence, U.S. officials told NBC News.
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Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
George W. Bush Breaks His Silence on the Direction of the Country Under President Trump: 'I Don't Like the Racism and Name-Calling' — For eight years since leaving the White House, George W. Bush has refused to criticize publicly those who succeeded him, saying he didn't want to make an already tough job …
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump Plans to Begin E.P.A. Rollback With Order on Clean Water — WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday aimed at rolling back one of former President Barack Obama's major environmental regulations to protect American waterways, but it will have almost …
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Trump's first speech to Congress: A guide — President Donald Trump will give his first speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday in the House Chamber in the Capitol Building. It is functionally the same as a State of the Union address — but it isn't called that because a president's …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
White House circulates talking points ahead of speech to Congress
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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:
Minimum Wage Massacre: Wendy's Unleashes 1,000 Robots To Counter Higher Labor Costs — In yet another awkwardly rational response to government intervention in deciding what's “fair”, the blowback from minimum wage demanding fast food workers has struck again.
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Rachel Bishop / Mirror.co.uk:
EDELMIRA BARREIRA, SPAIN'S ‘SEX TSAR ’ TALKS OF DEMOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION — Get Daily updates directly to your inbox — Spain has appointed a ‘sex tsar’ to help boost the country's “catastrophically low” birth rate . — Young couples have reportedly blamed being “too tired after a full day at work” …
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
FCC chairman says net neutrality was a mistake — He's ready to roll it back — FCC chairman Ajit Pai said today that net neutrality was “a mistake” and that the commission is now “on track” to return to a much lighter style of regulation. — “Our new approach injected tremendous uncertainty …
Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Executes Five Senior Officials With Antiaircraft Guns — South Korea reports purge, makes fresh charges in killing of dictator's brother Kim Jong Nam — SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un executed at least five senior officials in the country's Ministry …
CBS News:
GOP Rep. Darrell Issa backtracks on call for Trump special prosecutor — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) backtracked his call for a special prosecutor to look into Russian involvement in the 2016 Presidential election. “I certainly could see where if there is an allegation of a crime at some point …
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Udall floats plan to confirm Gorsuch, Garland to SCOTUS together — (CNN)Sen. Tom Udall has an idea that could place both Judge Neil Gorsuch and Judge Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court at the same time. — The Democrat from New Mexico presented the plan Monday morning to Gorsuch …
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