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Paul Demko / Politico:
White House analysis of Obamacare repeal sees even deeper insurance losses than CBO — A White House analysis of the GOP plan to repeal and replace Obamacare shows 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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Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Trump's Backing a Healthcare Plan That Breaks His Promises — President Donald Trump rode to the White House making big promises on health care — pledges that he is now in serious danger of breaking. Let's look at how the president's words on the campaign trail stack up against what we know today.
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ThinkProgress, American Thinker, Mediaite, Vox, The Atlantic and fox13now.com
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
No Magic in How G.O.P. Plan Lowers Premiums: It Penalizes Older People — There are a lot of unpleasant numbers for Republicans in the Congressional Budget Office's assessment of their health care bill. But congressional leadership found one to cheer: The report says that the bill …
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Hullabaloo
Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP scrambles after scorching health bill appraisal
GOP scrambles after scorching health bill appraisal
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Washington Post, Axios, Vox, ABC News and New York Times
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
CBO: Defunding Planned Parenthood would lead to thousands more births
CBO: Defunding Planned Parenthood would lead to thousands more births
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The Resurgent
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
5 takeaways from CBO report on House Republicans' Obamacare repeal and replacement
5 takeaways from CBO report on House Republicans' Obamacare repeal and replacement
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RedState, Hit & Run, Business Insider, Hot Air and Bloomberg
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The GOP health plan is an act of class warfare by the rich against the poor
The GOP health plan is an act of class warfare by the rich against the poor
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Little Green Footballs and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Avik Roy / Forbes:
Believe It Or Not, CBO's Score Of House GOP Obamacare Replacement Is Better Than Expected
Believe It Or Not, CBO's Score Of House GOP Obamacare Replacement Is Better Than Expected
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National Review, KTLA, Axios and Townhall.com
Fox News:
Paul Ryan: CBO report on ObamaCare repeal ‘exceeded my expectations’
Paul Ryan: CBO report on ObamaCare repeal ‘exceeded my expectations’
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Hullabaloo, BizPac Review and Fox News Insider
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
CBO: 24 Million People Would Lose Coverage Under House Republican Health Plan
CBO: 24 Million People Would Lose Coverage Under House Republican Health Plan
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Washington Post and bradford-delong.com
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 …
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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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The Gateway Pundit, The Root, The Daily Caller, Death and Taxes, Politicus USA, Hot Air, NPR, Washington Post, CBS Philly, Raw Story, RedState and The Verge
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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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Talking Points Memo, Townhall.com and CNN
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Executive Order on a Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch — COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR REORGANIZING THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
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Shakesville, The Last Refuge and Snopes.com
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Never-Trump Republicans join call for select committee to investigate Russia and Trump — Democrats in Congress have long argued that the ongoing intelligence committee investigations into Russia's interference in the presidential election and the Trump campaign's ties to the Kremlin are unlikely to get to the bottom of the issue.
Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
How a Wonky National-Security Blog Hit the Big Time — A little over a year ago, Benjamin Wittes, the editor in chief of the blog Lawfare, made the case that Donald Trump, as a Republican presidential candidate, represented nothing less than a national-security threat.
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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Politico, Washington Post, The Week, Axios and Political Wire
Ben Mutzabaugh / USA Today:
Tuesday: Blizzard flight woes peak; 8,000 cancellations since Sunday — 161 Shares … Tuesday promised to be the worst travel day yet from a late-season winter storm that's forced the cancellation of nearly 8,000 flights since Sunday. — Airlines moved quickly to pare their Tuesday schedules ahead …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats paralyzed as Gorsuch skates — Democrats can't seem to land a punch on Neil Gorsuch — and it's not even clear they want to. — President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee has breezed through more than 70 meetings with senators. Opponents who've scoured his record have found little to latch onto.
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Bloomberg, Hot Air, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Daily Caller
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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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ThinkProgress, Axios and The Daily Caller
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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The Federalist, AOL, Hullabaloo, Althouse, Campus Reform and Power Line
Joshua Stewart / Associated Press:
Issa's own poll suggests that Trump is a burden — Rep. Darrell Issa speaks during a town hall meeting in Oceanside on Saturday. — A month after Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) won reelection in the closest congressional race in the country, the congressman got a warning that his next contest could be even tougher.
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Political Wire
Des Moines Register:
GOP needs to oppose King's re-election, not just King's words — Rep. Steve King has apparently ticked off Jeb Bush for making comments about populating the country with “somebody else's babies.” Nathan Rousseau Smith (@fantasticmrnate) has the story. Buzz60 — CONNECT
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RealClearPolitics, The Atlantic, Fox News Insider, Washington Post, Daily Wire, Death and Taxes, NPR, Washington Examiner, KCCI-TV and ThinkProgress
Jeremy Pelzer / Plain Dealer:
Former lawmaker Connie Pillich enters race for Ohio governor — COLUMBUS, Ohio—Connie Pillich, an ex-lawmaker from Cincinnati and the 2014 Democratic nominee for state treasurer, announced Monday she's running for governor in 2018. — The 56-year-old attorney and Air Force veteran …
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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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
SEAL Team 6 is helping plan a ‘decapitation’ attack against North Korea's Kim Jong-un: report — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A report from a South Korean publication claims that the United States Navy's SEAL Team 6 is helping to plan a “decapitation attack” aimed at taking out North Korea's political leadership.
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Yonhap News Agency, Korea JoongAng Daily and The Daily Caller