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Christopher Ruddy / Newsmax:
Trump Should Ditch Freedom Caucus, Seek Bipartisan Plan — Trump ran on a platform of taking on Obamacare, but he should reject the current GOP plan. — A A — President Donald Trump should be applauded for courageously tackling the “disaster” - as he calls Obamacare - in his first major legislative effort.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump loyalists sound alarm over ‘RyanCare,’ endangering health bill — A simmering rebellion of conservative populists loyal to President Trump is further endangering the GOP health-care push, with a chorus of influential voices suspicious of the proposal warning the president to abandon it.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Close Trump friend says ditch Paul Ryan's plan and embrace universal health care — Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy calls for Medicaid for all. — A key Trump friend and ally is urging the president to dump Paul Ryan's Affordable Health Care Act and embrace something that sounds sort …
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CNN:
Hill moderates take issue with GOP health care plan — GOP's health care bill: Winners and losers — (CNN)A devastating analysis from the Congressional Budget Office on the House GOP bill to repeal Obamacare has rattled moderates Republicans in the House, who are uneasy about the prospects …
Greg Hinz / Chicago Business:
Roskam blinks on Ryancare — A key member of Illinois' congressional delegation is signaling for the first time that he may be open to significant changes in the Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan being pushed by House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump.
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Talking Points Memo
Katie Leslie / Dallas Morning News:
Sen. Ted Cruz: Forecast for rising premiums ‘most troubling aspect’ of scathing CBO health care report
Sen. Ted Cruz: Forecast for rising premiums ‘most troubling aspect’ of scathing CBO health care report
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Washington Post, Balloon Juice, Outside the Beltway and Politico
Washington Post:
Fact-checking the White House's rhetoric on the CBO report
Fact-checking the White House's rhetoric on the CBO report
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Daily Kos, Media Matters for America, Vox, Hit & Run and FiveThirtyEight
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
White House tries to salvage GOP health-care proposal as criticism mounts
White House tries to salvage GOP health-care proposal as criticism mounts
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The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Bloomberg and The Daily Signal
Madeleine Weast / Washington Free Beacon:
Nancy Pelosi's Health Care Tweet Gets Unintended Response
Nancy Pelosi's Health Care Tweet Gets Unintended Response
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit, Vox and Daily Wire
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The CBO's other bombshell: the Affordable Care Act isn't imploding
The CBO's other bombshell: the Affordable Care Act isn't imploding
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Politico, New Republic, Washington Post, BillMoyers.com, Mother Jones, Rewire, NPR, Daily Kos and CNBC
Aidan Quigley / Politico:
Republican governors skeptical of House GOP health care bill
Republican governors skeptical of House GOP health care bill
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Concord Monitor and New York Magazine
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Steve Bannon and the Making of an Economic Nationalist — The controversial White House counselor says his father's 2008 financial trauma helped crystallize his antiglobalist views and led to a political hardening; 'I'm going to be totally wiped out' — Steve Bannon has played a lead role in honing Donald Trump's message.
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Mother Jones and Hullabaloo
Alastair Gale / Wall Street Journal:
When the Children Crashed Dad's BBC Interview: The Family Speaks — In their first interview, Korea expert Robert Kelly and his wife Kim Jung-A describe the circumstances, chaos, and global reaction to their now-infamous home-office Skype catastrophe; ‘she was in a hippity-hoppity mood’
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Chris Massie / CNN:
Steve King: Blacks and Hispanics ‘will be fighting each other’ before overtaking whites in population — (CNN)Iowa Rep. Steve King said Monday that blacks and Hispanics “will be fighting each other” before overtaking whites in the US population. — King, a Republican …
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The Daily Beast:
Report: Trump's 2005 Taxes Revealed — Donald Trump earned more than $150 million in the year 2005—and paid just a small percentage of that in regular federal income taxes. Daily Beast contributor David Cay Johnston has obtained what appear to be the first two pages of Trump's 2005 federal …
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Vox, RedState, Axios, National Review, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Guardian
Jamie Lovegrove / Dallas Morning News:
Watch: Texas congressman tells rowdy town hall attendee to ‘shut up’ — WASHINGTON — Facing an earful from angry constituents at a town hall this weekend, Rep. Joe Barton at one point told a loud attendee to “shut up” — setting off even more heated reactions.
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Sam Levine / The Huffington Post:
GOP Congressman Tells Man To ‘Shut Up’ During Town Hall
GOP Congressman Tells Man To ‘Shut Up’ During Town Hall
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New York Times:
Kushners, Trump In-Laws, Weigh $400 Million Deal with Chinese Firm — A New York real estate company owned by the family of President Trump's son-in-law has been negotiating to sell a $400 million stake in its Fifth Avenue flagship skyscraper to a Chinese insurance company with ties to leading families of the Communist Party.
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Monica Crowley Lost White House Job, Now She's Got One With Pro-Russian Oligarch — A would-be Trump White House appointee who withdrew in the face of plagiarism allegations is now lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian oligarch who has recently advocated greater concessions to the Russian government, according to newly filed documents.
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Washington Examiner, LegiStorm, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Politico, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
John Nolte / Daily Wire:
BOMBSHELL: Fox News Sources Say Obama Used Brits To Spy On Donald Trump — While the American Intelligence Community (IC) plays “not us” when it comes to claims that the Obama Administration spied on President Trump (when he was both a candidate and President-elect), Fox News has learned …
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Breitbart, Hot Air, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, TheBlaze, BizPac Review, The Resurgent and LewRockwell
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Admiral, seven others charged with corruption in new ‘Fat Leonard’ indictment — The Justice Department unsealed a fresh indictment Tuesday charging eight current and former Navy officials — including an admiral — with corruption and other crimes in the “Fat Leonard” bribery case …
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Axios, Death and Taxes and The Daily Caller
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Breaking Faith — Over the past decade, pollsters charted something remarkable: Americans—long known for their piety—were fleeing organized religion in increasing numbers. The vast majority still believed in God. But the share that rejected any religious affiliation was growing fast …
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The Hugh Hewitt Show and National Review
Foreign Policy:
Tillerson To U.N. Rights Council: Reform or We're Leaving — The Trump administration puts the human rights body on notice in a letter obtained by FP. — The Trump administration is threatening a withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council if it does not undertake “considerable reform …
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The Hill, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, twitchy.com, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Daily Wire and Israel Matzav
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Defense Secretary Mattis withdraws Patterson as choice for undersecretary for policy — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has withdrawn retired senior diplomat Anne W. Patterson as his choice for undersecretary for policy after the White House indicated unwillingness to fight what it said would be a battle for Senate confirmation.
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Salon and The Daily Caller
Katherine Timpf / National Review:
High-School Kids Slammed for Wearing USA-Themed Attire to a Basketball Game — The Iowa students apologized for causing offense. — Students at Valley High School in Iowa wore USA-themed gear during a basketball game — and fans of the opposing team, Des Moines North High School, are saying that was offensive.
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Daily Wire, Hot Air and Geller Report
New York Times:
Prerequisite for Key White House Posts: Loyalty, Not Experience — WASHINGTON — President Trump's point man on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is a longtime Trump Organization lawyer with no government or diplomatic experience. His liaison to African-American leaders is a former reality-TV villain …
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Death and Taxes
Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Trump to Drop Climate Change From Environmental Reviews, Source Says — Directive to reverse Obama-era mandate for agency actions — Clean Power Plan, methane rules and coal halt also addressed — President Donald Trump is set to sign a sweeping directive to dramatically shrink …
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Washington Post, Engadget and The Daily Caller
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Senator Tom Cotton On The CBO Score and AHCA — Senator Tom Cotton joined me this morning: — Audio: — 03-14hhs-cotton — Transcript: — HH: On a snowy day on the East Coast, Senator Tom Cotton is still at work via the phone from Arkansas. He joins me, he is from Arkansas …
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Axios:
Exclusive: even deeper cuts being discussed for EPA — The Environmental Protection Agency isn't fighting the White House's initial budget that proposes to cut the agency's budget by about $2 billion — or roughly 25% — and reduce the agency's workforce by roughly 3,000 employees.
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Political Wire and The Daily Caller
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
The GOP health bill would create more insurance plans that Trump called ‘practically useless’ — President Trump doesn't like high deductibles, and he's not alone. High deductibles, provisions of health insurance plans that leave people on the hook for thousands of dollars of medical costs …
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Patterico's Pontifications
Associated Press:
US government says new travel ban ‘substantially different’ — President Donald Trump's revised travel ban is “substantially different” from the original and a judge shouldn't apply a previous restraining order to the new version, federal lawyers said Tuesday in a court filing.
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Politico
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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Reuters:
U.S. carrier joins South Korea drills, North Korea warns of ‘merciless’ strikes — As the USS Carl Vinson plowed through seas off South Korea on Tuesday, rival North Korea warned the United States of “merciless” attacks if the carrier infringes on its sovereignty or dignity during U.S.-South Korean drills.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Schools want out of Michelle Obama's lunch rules, kids say ‘Yuck’ — Faced with students who won't buy lunches low in salt and sugar and jacked up with bland-tasting grains, the nation's 54,000 school cafeteria workers are urging Washington to junk health-focused rules pushed by former first lady Michelle Obama.
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