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Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
HHS Sec. Tom Price: ‘Nobody Will Be Worse Off Financially’ Under GOP Health Plan — WASHINGTON — No one will be adversely affected by the Republicans' new health care bill once its enacted, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. — “I firmly believe that nobody …
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Trump economic head: Whether millions have insurance is ‘interesting’ but beside the point — National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn says how many people lose health coverage is really only about headlines. — Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace grilled Gary Cohn …
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Hullabaloo
Bloomberg:
White House Pledges No One ‘Worse Off’ in Obamacare Replacement — People on Medicaid will remain, Trump adviser Gary Cohn says — Senator fears health-care bill risks GOP House majority — Sweeping White House promises that insurance premiums will fall and more people will have coverage under …
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New York Times:
The G.O.P.'s High-Risk Strategy for Health Law Repeal
The G.O.P.'s High-Risk Strategy for Health Law Repeal
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Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Price on Obamacare replacement: ‘Nobody will be worse off financially’
Price on Obamacare replacement: ‘Nobody will be worse off financially’
David Edwards / Raw Story:
HHS Secretary Tom Price boldly promises ‘nobody will be worse off’ after Obamacare is repealed
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Democrats to turn Obamacare attacks against GOP in 2018
Democrats to turn Obamacare attacks against GOP in 2018
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Mother Jones
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Intel panel calls for wiretap evidence by Monday — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and ranking member Adam Schiff — (D-Calif.) have asked the White House to offer by Monday any evidence showing Trump Tower was wiretapped. — A congressional aide confirmed …
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
McCain calls on Trump to clarify wiretapping claim — Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Donald Trump should either retract or substantiate his claim that President Barack Obama wire-tapped him in the final weeks of the presidential campaign and added he expects …
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Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
McCain to Trump: Retract wiretapping claim or prove it
McCain to Trump: Retract wiretapping claim or prove it
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Kremlin spokesman: Russian ambassador met with advisers to Clinton campaign too
Kremlin spokesman: Russian ambassador met with advisers to Clinton campaign too
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Mike Allen / Axios:
1 big thing: Why Preet was toast — Why did Trump insiders instantly know that the “Sheriff of Wall Street,” Preet Bharara of Manhattan, would be fired when he resisted President Trump's resignation order to all the holdover U.S. attorneys? — There's a school of thought that the whole purge …
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New York Daily News:
Russian spies in New York City: Preet Bharara announces espionage charges against 3 men — The Cold War remains alive and well in New York City, where a trio of Russian nationals were acting as spies, federal investigators said Monday. — “The arrest of Evgeny Buryakov and the charges …
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
New Ferguson Video Adds Wrinkle to Michael Brown Case — In the two and a half years since Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., the explosive case has been parsed in intricate detail. Witnesses offered varying descriptions of the fatal encounter.
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
WikiLeaks aids doubters of Russian election hacking — WikiLeaks is helping to cast doubt on the conclusion of intelligence agencies that the Russian government was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee, in what appears to be the latest disinformation campaign orchestrated by Moscow.
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Jill Disis / CNNMoney:
Trump's budget director claims Obama was ‘manipulating’ jobs data — President Trump's budget director claims the Obama administration was “manipulating” jobs data. — Mick Mulvaney told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that he has long thought the previous administration framed data …
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
They are poor, sick and voted for Trump. What will happen to them without Obamacare? — Another morning, another list — of patients and problems in the hands of 35-year-old Keisha Saunders. Diabetes, depression, heart disease. Robert needs lower blood pressure. Buffy needs prescriptions filled.
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Balloon Juice
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Resist the Internet — So far, in my ongoing series of columns making the case for implausible ideas, I've fixed race relations and solved the problem of a workless working class. So now it's time to turn to the real threat to the human future: the one in your pocket or on your desk …
Leonard Pitts, Jr / miamiherald:
‘Can we all get along?’ Apparently not — So this driver is stopped at an intersection. A pedestrian is dawdling in the crosswalk. Driver leans out the window and yells, “Get out of the street, you damned liberal!” — It's been years since I read that in a magazine.
Elliot Hannon / Slate:
GOP Congressman's White Supremacist Tweet: “We Can't Restore Our Civilization With Somebody Else's Babies.” — Republican Congressman Steve King, who has a history of tip-toeing around white nationalist rhetoric, fired off a tweet Sunday afternoon that reeked of white supremacist ideology.
Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Donald Trump Jr: At Fundraiser, President's Son Says ‘Zero Contact’ With Dad — DALLAS — Donald Trump Jr. said he has had virtually no contact with his father since the real estate tycoon and reality star became president and ceded control of his business empire to his oldest sons.
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Irwin M. Stelzer / Weekly Standard:
The American Left Discovers Its Inner George Wallace — Who would have imagined that it would come to this? Leftish activists are campaigning to have the Confederate flag removed from statehouses, statutes of southern statesmen removed from campuses and public spaces …
Brian Whitehead / Orange County Register:
Rep. Darrell Issa's town halls draw more than 1,000 people, including crowds of protesters — OCEANSIDE - More than 1,000 people showed up at two town halls on Saturday to hear Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, explain his stances on a variety of hot-button issues.
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