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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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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.
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Axios, Vox, ABC News and New York Times
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Affordable Care Act revision would reduce insured numbers by 24 million, CBO projects — House Republicans' proposal to rewrite federal health-care law would more than reverse the gains the Affordable Care Act has made in the number of Americans with health insurance, while curbing the federal deficit …
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Patterico's Pontifications, Media Matters for America and Politico
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:
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 and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Trump's Backing a Healthcare Plan That Breaks His Promises
Trump's Backing a Healthcare Plan That Breaks His Promises
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American Thinker, Vox, Mediaite, CNBC, fox13now.com and The Atlantic
CBO's Publications:
American Health Care Act
American Health Care Act
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Health Affairs Blog, Politifact.com Truth …, Vox, New York Magazine, The Week, Breitbart, New York Times, EconLog, Forbes, KTLA, The Daily Signal, Washington Post, Obamacare Facts and FOX40
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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Vox, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Washington Post and bradford-delong.com
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, Bloomberg and Hot Air
Fox News:
ObamaCare repeal analysis: Millions would drop coverage, costs would fall under bill
ObamaCare repeal analysis: Millions would drop coverage, costs would fall under bill
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The Daily Caller, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Power Line and No More Mister Nice Blog
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump official slams CBO score: It's ‘just not believable’
Trump official slams CBO score: It's ‘just not believable’
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Balloon Juice, Politico, The Gateway Pundit, The FADER, TheBlaze, CNN, ABC News, AOL, Mother Jones, Washington Free Beacon and RedState
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
G.O.P. Health Law Insures Fewer People, Nonpartisan Review Shows
G.O.P. Health Law Insures Fewer People, Nonpartisan Review Shows
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The Incidental Economist, twitchy.com, Hullabaloo and The Atlantic
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 and Talking Points Memo
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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Raw Story, CNBC, The Week, The Hill, Axios, The Daily Caller, IJR, Business Insider, The Last Refuge, The Gateway Pundit, Mother Jones and Mediaite
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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NPR, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Death and Taxes, Politicus USA, CBS Philly, Washington Post, Raw Story, RedState, The Root 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
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, CNBC, Axios and Political Wire
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
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Osita Nwanevu / Slate:
There's nothing outrageous about stamping out bigoted speech.
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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Hot Air and Power Line
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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Schumer Warns of Government Shutdown Over Trump's Border Wall
Schumer Warns of Government Shutdown Over Trump's Border Wall
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Daily Caller
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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Axios and The Daily Caller
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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The Last Refuge and Snopes.com
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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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NY1 News, Politico, ProPublica, Rewire and Gothamist, more at Mediagazer »
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.
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
White House Seeks to Cut Billions in Funding for United Nations — U.S. retreat from U.N. could mark a “breakdown of the international humanitarian system as we know it.” — State Department staffers have been instructed to seek cuts in excess of 50 percent in U.S. funding for U.N. programs …
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Political Wire, BizPac Review, KTLA, The Last Refuge and AOL
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.
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
It's Democrats' Turn to Hint at a Shutdown, Over Border Wall Funding — WASHINGTON — Democrats pilloried Republicans for irresponsibly shutting down the government when Barack Obama was president, but as a minority party struggling to show resistance in the era of President Trump …
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Power Line
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
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
The Wisconsin lesson: Voters will reward Republicans if they do what they promised — Six weeks into a new administration, with unified Republican government for the first time in a decade, the GOP should be busy enacting a bold reform agenda. Instead, the party is wracked by internal divisions …
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 …