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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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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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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 …
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Washington Post:
Fact-checking the White House's rhetoric on the CBO report — White House press secretary Sean Spicer offered a number of attacks and claims during a news briefing dominated by the new Congressional Budget Office report on the House Republican replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act.
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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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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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Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Devastating CBO Report Exposes The Empty Promises Of Obamacare Repeal
Devastating CBO Report Exposes The Empty Promises Of Obamacare Repeal
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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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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Incredible Cruelty of Trumpcare
The Incredible Cruelty of Trumpcare
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Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
No Magic in How G.O.P. Plan Lowers Premiums: It Pushes Out Older People
No Magic in How G.O.P. Plan Lowers Premiums: It Pushes Out Older People
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Mulvaney on CBO: 'I don't believe the facts are correct'
Mulvaney on CBO: 'I don't believe the facts are correct'
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Allison Kite / Associated Press:
Kansas Rep. Booed Defending GOP Health Plan
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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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Elana Schor / Politico:
Schumer to GOP: Funding the wall means government shutdown — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned Republicans on Tuesday that they'd risk a government shutdown if they try to attach money for President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall to a must-pass bill to keep the government open.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats paralyzed as Gorsuch skates
Democrats paralyzed as Gorsuch skates
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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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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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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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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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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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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Kellyanne's Alternative Universe — Even in triumph, Kellyanne Conway nursed a grudge. As she reflected on Donald Trump's November victory, she made clear that she hadn't forgotten how people treated her back when they thought she was a sure loser. Their attitude wasn't one of outright rudeness …
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 …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Russia appears to deploy forces in Egypt, eyes on Libya role - sources — Russia appears to have deployed special forces to an airbase in western Egypt near the border with Libya in recent days, U.S., Egyptian and diplomatic sources say, a move that would add to U.S. concerns about Moscow's deepening role in Libya.
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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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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Ferguson Documentary Disputed as New Footage Is Released — A documentary released over the weekend renewed tensions in Ferguson, Mo., by claiming the authorities withheld video that would have absolved Michael Brown of a robbery he was accused of committing minutes before being fatally shot by a police officer.
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Mandates Are Government Benefits in Disguise — An example of what is wrong with our health-insurance/health-care system(s) can be found in a humane and well-intentioned bill in the Texas legislature what would require Texas insurance companies to cover the cost of hearing aids for children.
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Former NC gov. says ‘bathroom law’ has made it hard for him to find job — Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) says the state's controversial “bathroom law” has made it difficult for him to land a job after leaving office. — McCrory said in an interview with a World Radio podcast …