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Paul Demko / Politico:
White House analysis of Obamacare repeal sees even deeper insurance losses than CBO — The White House's own internal analysis of the GOP plan to repeal and replace Obamacare show even steeper coverage losses than the projections by the Congressional Budget Office, according to a document viewed by POLITICO on Monday.
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Business Insider, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog … and The Atlantic
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Speaker.gov:
Speaker Ryan Statement on American Health Care Act CBO Score — WASHINGTON—House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement in response to the Congressional Budget Office's scoring of the American Health Care Act:
Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP scrambles after scorching health bill appraisal — House Republican leaders plunged into damage control mode Monday after a brutal budgetary assessment of their Obamacare replacement threatened to upend Senate GOP support and armed their critics on the left.
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
G.O.P. Health Law Insures Fewer People, Nonpartisan Review Shows — WASHINGTON — The House Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would cause 24 million people to lose health insurance within a decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Monday.
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Washington Post, Fox News, Patterico's Pontifications, Hullabaloo, twitchy.com, The Atlantic and Protecting Your Pocket
CBO's Publications:
American Health Care Act — CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the American Health Care Act would reduce federal deficits by $337 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 24 million in 2026 relative to current law.
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EconLog, Breitbart, Vox, The Week, The Daily Signal, Washington Post, Obamacare Facts, KTLA and FOX40
Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Experts: Premiums will rise under GOP health care plan — Seven experts responded to a NYT request to predict what the Congressional Budget Office might say about the Republican Obamacare replacement bill in five different areas: long-term costs, how many people will lose health insurance …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump official slams CBO score: It's ‘just not believable’ … The Trump administration on Monday slammed the Congressional Budget Office's projection that millions of people would lose their health insurance under the Republicans' plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
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CNN, Politico, AOL, The FADER, TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit, ABC News, RedState and Washington Free Beacon
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The GOP health plan is an act of class warfare by the rich against the poor — The Congressional Budget Office's assessment of Republicans' plan to replace Obamacare is a description of one of the largest, most significant income redistribution programs the US government has ever considered …
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Little Green Footballs
Allison Graves / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
Fact-checking White House criticism of CBO health care analysis
Fact-checking White House criticism of CBO health care analysis
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The CBO just dealt a huge blow to Republicans' Obamacare replacement
The CBO just dealt a huge blow to Republicans' Obamacare replacement
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The Guardian, Media Matters for America, Talking Points Memo, Politico and LasVegasSun.com
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
CBO estimates 24 million lose coverage under GOP plan. The devastating report, explained.
CBO estimates 24 million lose coverage under GOP plan. The devastating report, explained.
Shannon Pettypiece / Bloomberg:
Trump Warns It Could Take Several Years for Health Costs to Drop
Trump Warns It Could Take Several Years for Health Costs to Drop
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Hot Air
Elana Schor / Politico:
Sanders: ‘Thousands of Americans will die’ because of GOP Obamacare repeal bill
Sanders: ‘Thousands of Americans will die’ because of GOP Obamacare repeal bill
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Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Spicer: Trump didn't mean wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping — Spicer walks back Trump's wiretapping claims — (CNN)The White House on Monday walked back key point of President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated allegation that President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 election.
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
'We've Had to Live in This Farce for the Last Nine Days': Tapper Goes Off on Trump's Wiretap Claims
'We've Had to Live in This Farce for the Last Nine Days': Tapper Goes Off on Trump's Wiretap Claims
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Allison Stanger / New York Times:
Understanding the Angry Mob at Middlebury that Gave Me a Concussion — MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — There's nothing like a little violence to focus the mind. I am the Middlebury College professor who ended up with whiplash and a concussion for having the audacity to engage with the ideas of Charles Murray …
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Hullabaloo, Campus Reform, AOL, Althouse and Power Line
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Osita Nwanevu / Slate:
There's nothing outrageous about stamping out bigoted speech.
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump looks to woo conservatives on Obamacare repeal — President Donald Trump's White House is increasingly likely to support some conservative-backed changes to the House Obamacare alternative, two administration officials said Monday — a move that comes after a nonpartisan budgetary …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
GOP senator decries ‘mythical’ House ObamaCare strategy
GOP senator decries ‘mythical’ House ObamaCare strategy
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RedState
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Sanders responds to CBO score: ‘Thousands of Americans will die’
Sanders responds to CBO score: ‘Thousands of Americans will die’
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Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Gave CIA Power to Launch Drone Strikes — New authority departs from Obama-era policy under which only the Pentagon conducted the operations — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency secret new authority to conduct drone strikes against suspected terrorists …
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Axios and Political Wire
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Audio Emerges of When Paul Ryan Abandoned Donald Trump: ‘I Am Not Going to Defend Donald Trump—Not Now, Not in the Future’ — On a never-before-released private October conference call with House Republican members, House Speaker Paul Ryan told his members in the U.S. House …
Bloomberg:
Kushners Set to Get $400 Million From Chinese on Marquee Tower — Family company of president's son-in-law in deal with Anbang — Plan is circulating among investors for more equity partners — A company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser …
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Tillerson Used ‘Alias’ Email for Climate Messages, N.Y. Says — Secretary of State employed secondary account on climate issue — Claim is made in suit over New York's probe into energy firm — New York says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used an email alias to discuss climate change …
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The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Federal Inquiry of Fox News Moves to a Grand Jury, but Without Preet Bharara — The political drama around the federal courthouse in Manhattan did not end with the sudden, unexplained turnabout of President Trump in firing Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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Politico, ProPublica, Rewire, Gothamist, The Huffington Post, Washington Free Beacon, BizPac Review, CNBC, ABC News and CBS New York, more at Mediagazer »
Sarah Posner / Washington Post:
Why are we hearing crickets from the GOP on Steve King's ugly Tweet? — Over the weekend, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa ) tweeted that Dutch far-right nationalist Geert Wilders has been right in saying that “culture and demographics are our destiny,” adding that “we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.”
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Daily Wire, KCCI-TV, Washington Examiner, ThinkProgress, NPR, Death and Taxes, CNN, Fox News Insider, The Hill, Business Insider and Balloon Juice
Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
McCrory, working as consultant, says HB2 makes some employers ‘reluctant to hire me’ — Former Gov. Pat McCrory says the backlash against House Bill 2 is making some employers reluctant to hire him but he's currently doing consulting and advisory board work.
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Balloon Juice
Facebook and Privacy:
We are committed to building a community where people can feel safe making their voices heard. Our approach involves making careful decisions every day about how we use and protect data at Facebook. We also adopt policies that limit how developers, advertisers, and others can use our platform.
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The Hill, fox13now.com, The Daily Caller, Morning Consult, The Verge, New York Magazine, CBS Philly, Mashable and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Signals ‘Big Fat Beautiful Negotiation’ on House Healthcare Bill — President Donald Trump told reporters that a “big fat beautiful negotiation” was underway on the proposed house health care bill, after a growing number of conservatives have voiced dissent with the effort.
Adelle Platon / Billboard:
Snoop Dogg on ‘Lavender’ Video Parodying Trump: 'Nobody's Dealing With the Real Issue With This F—king Clown as President' — The rapper's latest video features a Snoop Loops commercial, Michael Rapaport and a clown mocking president Donald Trump. — The concept for Snoop Dogg's new video for …
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Nicola Slawson / The Guardian:
Boaty McBoatface to go on its first Antarctic mission — Robot submarine, named after competition, will collect data from depths of Southern Ocean — A small yellow robot submarine, called Boaty McBoatface after a competition to name a new polar research ship backfired, is being sent on its first Antarctic mission.
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nerc.ac.uk, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Daily Caller
Jordan Freiman / Death and Taxes:
Trump unfollows ‘Morning Joe’ hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski on Twitter — At some point in the last 24 hours, President Trump unfollowed Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Twitter. While the pair were some of Trump's earliest supporters when he first declared …
Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones Challenges Alec Baldwin To “Bare Knuckle” Fight For Charity So He Can “Break” His Neck — ALEX JONES (HOST): Alec Baldwin thinks he is a tough guy, I challenge him a million dollars to the charity he wants to get in the ring with me, bare knuckle. I will, I'll do it right now.
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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Genevieve DiNatale / Boston Herald:
Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber says Republicans setting up a ‘scam’ — MIT economics professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber said that any healthcare replacement law the GOP has in store is a “scam.” — “Any replace[ment] that they would pass would result in millions …
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MichelleMalkin.com
Alex Samuels / The Texas Tribune:
With proposal to penalize men for masturbating, legislator aims to shake up health debate — State Rep. Jessica Farrar, a Houston Democrat, filed House Bill 4260 Friday, which would fine men $100 for masturbating. — When it comes to issues related to health, state Rep. Jessica Farrar …
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Mediaite, The Hill, Death and Taxes, Mashable, LifeNews.com, The Guardian, Washington Post, NBC News, Snopes.com, WCMH-TV, TheBlaze, Refinery29, New York Magazine, AOL and Washington Free Beacon
Daily Mail:
Theresa May FINALLY wins the power to trigger Article 50 as historic Brexit Bill is sent to the Queen following climb-down by peers — Theresa May has finally won the power to trigger Article 50 after peers backed down and passed the Brexit Bill after two crucial votes in the Commons earlier.
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Vox Popoli