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Jeff Stein / Vox:
One tweet that explains Republicans' big health care bill challenge — The day after unveiling their new bill to replace Obamacare, the Republican authors of the Affordable Health Care Act find themselves in a bind. — Even if the new bill has the votes in the House, it will also have to pass the Senate.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Is McConnell Rushing Through a Trumpcare Bill Everybody Hates? — Following the unveiling of the House Republican plan to shrink Obamacare dramatically, two surprising things happened. The first is that the conservative-movement apparatus has lined up rapidly against the bill.
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Ann Coulter Wants to Know Who Wrote ‘This Piece of Crap Obamacare Replacement Bill’ — White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that what the House GOP released last night is the Obamacare repeal that everyone's been waiting for. — And while Vice President Mike Pence said today …
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Avik Roy / Forbes:
GOP's Obamacare Replacement Will Make Coverage Unaffordable For Millions — Otherwise, It's Great — That's not an ironic headline. Leading House Republicans have included a number of transformative and consequential reforms in their American Health Care Act, the full text of which was published Monday evening.
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Michael F. Cannon / Cato Institute:
The House GOP Leadership's Health Care Bill Is ObamaCare-Lite — Or Worse
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Freedom Caucus members say GOP doesn't have votes to pass healthcare plan
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Republican Obamacare plan signals that liberalism has already won
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Sean Spicer Inaccurately Claims Paul Ryan's Health Care Bill ‘Fully’ Repeals Obamacare
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
10 million may lose health insurance coverage under GOP's Obamacare replacement plan, S&P says
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Mike Pence warns GOP lawmakers against healthcare revolt
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump begins healthcare push: 'Let's get it done'
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Can Trump Save the Republican Health-Care Bill?
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Paul Ryan's Health-Care Vise
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
House Republican plan would create Obamacare cliff for 2020 presidential election
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United States Senator Mike Lee:
Lee Statement on American Health Care Act
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Club for Growth opposes GOP Obamacare replacement
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New York Times:
WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents — WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks on Tuesday released thousands of documents that it said described sophisticated software tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency to break into smart phones, computers and even Internet-connected televisions.
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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Wikileaks Dump Shows CIA Could Turn Smart TVs into Listening Devices
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Andrew Griffin / The Independent:
WikiLeaks publishes massive trove of CIA spying files in ‘Vault 7’ release
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Curt Mills / US News:
NSA Whistleblower Backs Trump Up on Wiretap Claims — Bill Binney, who resigned from NSA in 2001, did not elaborate on President Obama's specific role in surveilling Trump. — A veteran of the NSA has said President Donald Trump is righ to claim he was wiretapped and monitored. (ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES)
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Max Bearak / Washington Post:
Khizr Khan's claim that the U.S. is restricting his travel may be unraveling — Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father whose impassioned speech at the Democratic National Convention last July called on Americans to reject a ban on Muslims entering the United States, claimed that his …
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CNN:
Trump warns House GOP members of electoral ‘bloodbath’ if repeal and replace fails — Trump ‘proud to support’ GOP health care plan — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump warned House Republicans Tuesday if they can't get pass health care legislation after seven years of promises it could be a …
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BostonGlobe.com:
R.I. lawmaker surprised by ‘insane amount of drinking’ at State House — PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island lawmaker says she's surprised by the “insane amount of drinking” that goes on in the State House. — Providence Democratic Rep. Moira Walsh tells WPRO-AM that lawmakers have “file cabinets full of booze.”
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Senator Bernie Sanders:
What should we do if the president is a liar? — We face a very serious political problem in this country, and that problem is manifested in a post written yesterday by Amber Phillips of The Washington Post. In her piece, Phillips criticizes me for lowering the state of our political discourse …
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Hawaii plans to file first lawsuit against new travel ban — Trump's new travel ban: One thing to know — Lawyers for the challengers say the new travel ban suffers from the same “constitutional and statutory defects” as the original one — (CNN)Hawaii is not wasting any time challenging President Donald Trump's new travel ban.
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Al Franken: I think Jeff Sessions committed perjury — Washington (CNN)Minnesota Sen. Al Franken said he now believes that Attorney General Jeff Sessions committed perjury during his confirmation hearing when he did not disclose meetings with a Russian ambassador.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Grants Oval Office Meeting to TMZ Founder — Since Inauguration Day, President Trump has spent his time meeting with heads of state, titans of industry, economic advisers and public health specialists. — And the founder of TMZ. — Mr. Trump, in a meeting last Wednesday …
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David Lat / Above the Law:
And The Nominee For Solicitor General Is.... The long and winding road to a nominee for Solicitor General of the United States is about to come to an end. According to sources familiar with the process, Noel Francisco, the former Jones Day partner who is currently serving as acting Solicitor General …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Liberals threaten to primary over Gorsuch
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Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Trump's Wiretap Tweets Raise Risk of Impeachment — The sitting president has accused his predecessor of an act that could have gotten the past president impeached. That's not your ordinary exercise of free speech. If the accusation were true, and President Barack Obama ordered …
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Bre Payton / The Federalist:
11 Times Barack Obama Compared Slaves To Immigrants — This week, liberals savagely mocked Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson for allegedly comparing slaves to immigrants. It looks like they've completely forgotten about all the times Barack Obama did the exact same thing.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
White House official terrorizes network green rooms — White House official Boris Epshteyn, a combative Trump loyalist tasked with plugging the president's message on television, threatened earlier this year to pull all West Wing officials from appearing on Fox News after a tense appearance on anchor Bill Hemmer's show.
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump's split screen: A two-hour virtual conversation between the president and ‘Fox and Friends’ — Early Tuesday morning, President Trump tuned into “Fox and Friends.” — For several days, Trump's staff kept him away from television cameras. He spent the weekend hidden away …
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog News:
Newsmax/WSJ: Trump met Russian Amb. Kislyak last April — Contradicting repeated denials from Donald Trump and his team, Newsmax reported on May 14, 2016 that Trump met Russian Ambassador Kislyak at a VIP reception in Washington on April 27. — And while meeting the Russian ambassador is fine, why lie about it?
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