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Axios:
Inside the Trumpcare meltdown — When the balky hardliners of the House Freedom Caucus visited the White House earlier this week, this was Steve Bannon's opening line, according to people in the conference room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building: … - Bannon's point was: This is the Republican platform.
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RedState
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
Inside the GOP's Health Care Debacle — Donald Trump had heard enough about policy and process. It was Thursday afternoon and members of the House Freedom Caucus were peppering the president with wonkish concerns about the American Health Care Act—the language that would leave Obamacare's …
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Axios, Wall Street Journal, Scripting News, Slate, Viking Pundit, Talking Points Memo, Eclectablog, Washington Monthly, Josh Blackman's Blog, Vox and Hit & Run
Wall Street Journal:
The ObamaCare Republicans — The GOP right blows up its best chance to reform government. — House Republicans pulled their health-care bill shortly before a vote on Friday, and for once the media dirge is right about a GOP defeat. This is a major blow to the Trump Presidency …
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Raw Story
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Ryan wounded by health care fiasco — The painful public collapse Friday of Paul Ryan's biggest endeavor as House speaker — legislation to unwind the Democratic health care law he and his party spent years castigating as a disaster — dealt a serious blow to the Wisconsin Republican.
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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Axios and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Report: Bannon told conservatives ‘this is not a debate,’ you have to back bill — White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon told a group of House conservatives they had no choice but to back the GOP's ObamaCare repeal bill days before the bill was pulled, according to a new report.
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Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, CNBC, ABC News, Fox News, Daily Wire, AOL, The Gateway Pundit and TheBlaze
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump gets tamed by Washington — Donald Trump crowed for months he would strike a “terrific” deal on health care. His ambitions ended in a brief phone call Friday afternoon, in which Speaker Paul Ryan told him the truth: He was nowhere close. — The businessman president …
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National Review
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Republicans Land a Punch on Health Care, to Their Own Face
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Liberal Values and IJR
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
A new dynamic may be emerging in the House: A right and left flank within the GOP willing to buck leadership
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Discussion About GOP Replacement to Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House Intensifies in White House, Congress
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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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Politico, New Republic, Washington Post and New York Times
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
‘Hello, Bob’: President Trump called my cellphone to say that the health-care bill was dead
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Nobody Knew Governing Could Be So Complicated
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Washington Times and Talking Points Memo
Aaron Lorenzo / Politico:
Tax reform next? Maybe not.
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ABC News, Political Wire, Bloomberg and Investor's Business Daily
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Devin Nunes Vanished the Night Before He Made Trump Surveillance Claims — Hours before the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee announced his shocking claims about the Trump transition team on Wednesday morning, he practically disappeared. — Rep. Devin Nunes was traveling …
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Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump's Secret Service detail roiling her D.C. neighbors — Ivanka Trump's neighbors delivered a handwritten note welcoming her to their gilded Northwest Washington Zip code after she and her husband, Jared Kushner, moved from New York with their three small children.
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The Daily Caller
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Marielturnerktla / KTLA:
Trump Upset Jared Kushner Took Aspen Ski Vacation as Health Care Bill Faltered
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Trump unhappy Jared Kushner took a powder on the ski slopes as health care bill floundered
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AOL, Hollywood Life, Politico and RedState
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 …
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Power Line and National Review
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Napolitano told friends he was on Trump's Supreme Court shortlist — Judge Andrew Napolitano may be temporarily sidelined at Fox News, but he's been telling friends and associates that he could be in for a big promotion — to the Supreme Court. — After meeting with President Trump twice during …
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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Democrats Have a Gorsuch Problem
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The Resurgent, Washington Free Beacon and Betsy's Page
Bloomberg:
Uber Self-Driving Vehicle Involved in Arizona Crash — A self-driving car operated by Uber Technologies Inc. was involved in a crash in Tempe, Arizona, the latest setback for a company reeling from multiple crises. — In a photo posted on Twitter, one of Uber's Volvo self-driving SUVs …
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Timothy Burke / Screengrabber:
Basketball Fans Treated To Ads Congratulating Republicans For Repealing Obamacare [UPDATE] — Basketball fans tonight in several Republican-adjacent TV markets are enjoying a series of ads, prematurely bought by the American Action Network PAC, inviting viewers to call their representatives …
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Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, IJR, Mother Jones and The Slot
The Daily Beast:
Russia's Putin Picks Le Pen to Rule France — MOSCOW — Russian interference in the American elections last year was downright subtle compared to what we've seen this week in the run-up to French presidential elections. — The two-round vote on April 23 and May 7 could change politics …
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