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New York Times:
In Spectacular Defeat for Trump, Push to Repeal Health Law Fails — WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders, facing a revolt among conservatives and moderates in their ranks, pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act from consideration on the House floor Friday afternoon …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
‘Hello, Bob’: President Trump called my cellphone to say that the health-care bill was dead — President Trump called me on my cellphone Friday afternoon at 3:31 p.m. At first I thought it was a reader with a complaint since it was a blocked number. — Instead, it was the president calling from the Oval Office.
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Discussion About GOP Replacement to Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House Intensifies in White House, Congress — Republican officials in Congress and the White House are now openly discussing finding a GOP replacement to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as Speaker of the House …
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Washington Post:
‘The closer’? The inside story of how Trump tried — and failed — to make a deal on health care — Shortly after House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) unveiled the Republican health-care plan on March 6, President Trump sat in the Oval Office and queried his advisers: “Is this really a good bill?”
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Obamacare Defeated Trumpcare — With the collapse of the House health-care bill, the cause of repealing Obamacare, a right-wing obsession for seven years and a day, has died. The flame will never be fully extinguished in the hearts of the true believers — after all …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Trump unhappy Jared Kushner took a powder on the ski slopes as health care bill floundered — Aides in Washington toiled all week trying to get the health care reform bill over the finish line — Washington (CNN)While the rest of his senior staff scrambled to squeeze votes …
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Nobody Knew Governing Could Be So Complicated — The Republican Party's marquee legislative initiative had just imploded in spectacular, and humiliating, fashion Friday afternoon when Paul Ryan stepped up to a podium on Capitol Hill. The beleaguered house speaker wasted no time in diagnosing the failure of his caucus.
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Aaron Lorenzo / Politico:
Tax reform next? Maybe not. — Republicans' spectacular failure to repeal and replace Obamacare threatens to sabotage another cornerstone of their agenda, tax reform — because of simple math. — The GOP was counting on wiping out nearly $1 trillion in Obamacare taxes to help finance …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox's Stuart Varney: ‘The Republican Party is a disgrace’ — Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney scolded the GOP on Friday for struggling to repeal and replace ObamaCare despite controlling the House, Senate and White House. — “I personally believe at this moment in time the Republican Party …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Republicans Land a Punch on Health Care, to Their Own Face — WASHINGTON — At the end of the long day, the alliance of conservative ideologues who once shut down the government over President Barack Obama's health care law could not find the will to repeal it.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Why Steve Bannon Might Be the Winner of the GOP's Health-Care Civil War
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Health Care Bill's Failure: Just Part of the ‘Art of the Deal’
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Bannon Tells Trump: ‘Keep a S**t List’ of Republicans Who Opposed You
Bloomberg:
White House Preparing to Blame Ryan If Health Bill Fails, Official Says
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: I never said repeal and replace would come in 64 days
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
In a Call to The Times, Trump Blames Democrats for the Failure of the Health Bill
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The failure of the Republican health care bill reveals a party unready to govern
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
GOP health-care bill: House Republican leaders abruptly pull their rewrite of the nation's health-care law
CNN:
Ryan visiting Trump, not delivering good news on health care
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Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Ryan pulls ‘fundamentally flawed’ GOP health care bill following call from Trump
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Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed:
Planned Parenthood's President: “It's Time For Ivanka To Stand For Women”
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Republicans yank Obamacare repeal bill
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
GOP cave on Obamacare repeal is the biggest broken promise in political history — Broken promises are as old as politics itself, and there are many famous examples of them in modern history. President George H.W. Bush's “read my lips, no new taxes” pledge comes immediately to mind …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
FBI Director Comey visits White House — FBI Director James Comey was at the White House on Friday, days after he confirmed his bureau is investigating ties between associates of President Trump and Russia. — The White House said Comey visited to attend a “routine interagency meeting,” but did not say with whom he met.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Nunes (Kind of) Confesses He Went Off Half-Cocked
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Nunes: Manafort volunteered to interview with Intel panel
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Wall Street Journal:
Ex-CIA Director: Mike Flynn and Turkish Officials Discussed Removal of Erdogan Foe From U.S. — James Woolsey says he attended a September meeting where other participants, including then-Trump adviser Mike Flynn, talked of moving Fethullah Gulen back to Turkey without going through U.S. extradition process
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Dan Alexander / Forbes:
After Promising Not To Talk Business With Father, Eric Trump Says He'll Give Him Financial Reports — Eric Trump sits behind a desk on the 25th floor of Trump Tower in New York City, dressed in a slightly less formal version of his father's go-to power uniform—blue suit, white buttoned-down shirt, no tie.
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Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones Apologizes For Pizzagate Coverage, Blames Other Media Outlets — Conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones was pressured to air an apology for his role in spreading the false “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, which led to a Jones listener firing a gun inside a Washington, D.C. pizzeria.
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Axios:
Mnuchin: Losing human jobs to AI “not even on our radar screen” — Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin joined Axios' Mike Allen this morning at the debut of his News Shapers event series to talk about his new role in the Trump Administration. — On AI supplanting human jobs …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Republican Waterloo — Seven years and three days ago, the House of Representatives grumblingly voted to approve the Senate's version of the Affordable Care Act. Democrats in the House were displeased by many of the changes introduced by Senate Democrats.
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David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:
Column Whatever you do, don't say yes when this chatbot asks, ‘Can you hear me?’ — CSA Images/Archive / Getty Images — It's the most cunning robocall scam I've encountered — and the fact that I've fallen for it more than once tells you how successful it can be. — The phone rings.
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Katherine Timpf / National Review:
College ‘Diversity Council’ Admits to Posting Fake Racist Flyers On Campus — The idea was to encourage ‘dialogue.’ — The Diversity Leadership Council at Gustavus Adolphus College admits that it — with the help of other social-justice groups — planted fake racist flyers on campus “to educate” people about racism.
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