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6:15 PM ET, March 13, 2017

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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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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 …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
24 million would lose health insurance coverage by 2026 under GOP's Obamacare replacement, new estimate says  —  Fourteen million people would become uninsured next year if the top Republican proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare is signed into law, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Monday.
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Health Plan Would Hit Rural Areas Hard  —  Poor, older Americans would see largest increase in insurance-coverage costs, analysis shows  —  The House Republican effort to overhaul the Affordable Care Act could hit many rural areas particularly hard, according to a new analysis …
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.
CNN:
CBO report: 14 million fewer insured by 2018 under GOP health care bill
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
CBO: 24 Million More Uninsured By 2026 Under GOP Health Care Bill
Discussion: Shakesville
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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Mike Kelly / USA Today:
Kellyanne Conway suggests even wider surveillance of Trump campaign  —  ALPINE, N.J. — The White House is offering yet another wrinkle in its attempt to support President Trump's allegation — unfounded, so far — that his campaign headquarters in Manhattan was wiretapped by the Obama administration.
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Spicer: Trump 'doesn't really think' Obama wiretapped him personally  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that President Donald Trump “doesn't really think” that Barack Obama “tapped his phone personally,” seeming to walk back Trump's explosive and unsubstantiated claim …
Discussion: ABC News, Political Wire, Vox and The Hill
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Chris Cuomo refuses to let Kellyanne Conway wriggle away from Trump's bizarre wiretapping claims
Discussion: The Root
David Edwards / Raw Story:   Trump whines Obamacare looks ‘so great’ now: ‘Like President Obama — when he left, people liked him’
Andrew Malcolm / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump is doing what Obama didn't do: reach out and listen
Discussion: Instapundit
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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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Steve King Says Civilization Can't Be Restored With 'Somebody Else's Babies'
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
King doubles down on controversial ‘babies’ tweet
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 …
Discussion: CNBC, Axios, Raw Story, The Week and Reuters
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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Shree:
Such a Great Country, Such Nasty Bigotry  —  The night of the election, my iPhone screen shattered.  The joke I like to make is that there was glass shattering on November 8th but not the kind we wanted.  —  There's something symbolic about the shattered glass on my phone and it serves …
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Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
Is Trump Trolling the White House Press Corps?  —  At daily briefings, Sean Spicer calls on young journalists from far-right sites.  The mainstream media sees them as an existential threat.  —  In normal times, White House press briefings make for boring television.
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 …
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Schumer Warns of Government Shutdown Over Trump's Border Wall  —  Democratic leader also cites plan to defund Planned Parenthood  —  Congress must pass spending bill by April 28 to avoid shutdown  —  Senate Democrats warned Republicans Monday that attempts to take funding away …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Alex Lockie / Business Insider:
SEAL Team 6 is reportedly training for a decapitation strike against North Korea's Kim regime  —  The annual Foal Eagle military drills between the US and South Korea will include some heavy hitters this year — the Navy SEAL team that took out Osama bin Laden, Army Special Forces, and F-35s — South Korea's Joon Gang Daily reports.
Discussion: Yonhap News Agency and Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite and IJR
 
 
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Will Trump bungle first big snow threat like Obama did?
Tom Fitton / Breitbart:
Obama IRS Scandal Continues - Judicial Watch Forces IRS to Disclose New Documents
Reuters:
UK PM May's hand moves closer to Brexit trigger
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Virginia Hale / Breitbart:
Sweden Can't Find Contractor Willing to Build Police Station in Migrant Suburb — 'It's Too Dangerous'
Discussion: Sputnik International
Alizachasan / New York's PIX11:
Man eggs Trump Tower in New York
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
Trump's Climate Agenda: Do Less, With Less
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Seeing red: Membership triples for the Democratic Socialists of America
Discussion: Breitbart and Hot Air
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Trump Never Needed a Trump TV—He's Got the Fox Business Network
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Democrats Seek To Escape Their Whirlpool Of Failure And Fail At That Too
Discussion: Shot in the Dark
Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN hires Chris Cillizza
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
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Financial Times:
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