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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Nunes says he was on WH grounds day before revealing Trump surveillance info — Washington (CNN)It has been something of a mystery, the whereabouts of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes on the day before his announcement that he saw information suggesting that communications …
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Devin Nunes Explains His White House Visit — For the last few days, much of Washington has been obsessed with what Representative Devin Nunes did last Tuesday evening. That was the night before Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, made the explosive allegation …
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Devin Nunes is making it very hard for Republicans to claim they can run an impartial investigation on Russia — From the perspective of impartiality, one of the problems with Congress investigating Russia's meddling in the U.S. election and whether President Trump's circle had anything to do with it is Congress itself.
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
White House's Online Visitor Logs Remain Offline Under Trump
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
After health care fiasco, Trump's next move may be even more disastrous — THE MORNING PLUM: — Now that the GOP plan to wipe out Obamacare lies in smoking ruins, President Trump is mulling a new and fiendishly clever scheme: allow the law to collapse, or even further undermine …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How to Build on Obamacare — “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” So declared Donald Trump three weeks before wimping out on his promise to repeal Obamacare. Up next: “Nobody knew that tax reform could be so complicated.” Then, perhaps: “Nobody knew that international trade policy could be so complicated.”
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan: House Republicans will continue their push for health-care reform this year — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan told Republican donors Monday that he intends to continue pushing for an overhaul of the nation's health-care system by working “on two tracks” as he also pursues other elements of President Trump's agenda.
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Dealt a Defeat, Republicans Set Their Sights on Major Tax Cuts
Dealt a Defeat, Republicans Set Their Sights on Major Tax Cuts
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The King of Crash and Burn
The King of Crash and Burn
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Internal White House battles spill into Treasury
Internal White House battles spill into Treasury
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New York Times:
Senate Committee to Question Jared Kushner Over Meetings With Russians — Senate investigators plan to question Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and a close adviser, as part of their broad inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials or others linked to the Kremlin …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: How Trump's presidency is succeeding
The Daily 202: How Trump's presidency is succeeding
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas
Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to New Low of 36% — President Donald Trump's job approval rating fell to 36% for the three-day period of March 24-26, following Republican House leaders' failed effort to pass a new healthcare bill that would have replaced the Affordable Care Act.
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
AG Jeff Sessions takes aim at sanctuary cities, says DOJ will cut funding — Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a surprise appearance at today's White House press briefing, slamming cities that are working to actively ignore the federal law to turn over people who are living in the country illegally.
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CBS News:
Jeff Sessions calls on sanctuary cities to “enforce our immigration laws”
Jeff Sessions calls on sanctuary cities to “enforce our immigration laws”
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The Washington Times http / Washington Times:
AG Sessions says he'll punish sanctuaries, cities could lose billions of dollars
AG Sessions says he'll punish sanctuaries, cities could lose billions of dollars
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Axios:
GOP scrambles to defuse shutdown bomb — A top Republican with close ties to the White House tells me that after the GOP failure on healthcare, a government shutdown — looming when a continuing resolution runs out April 28 — is “more likely than not... Wall Street is not expecting a shutdown and the markets are unprepared.”
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Jeremy Binckes / Salon:
Republicans are facing another government shutdown, and they may not be able to stop it
Republicans are facing another government shutdown, and they may not be able to stop it
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MJ Lee / CNN:
To read Trump's mind, lawmakers read ‘The Art of the Deal’
To read Trump's mind, lawmakers read ‘The Art of the Deal’
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Dems delay Senate panel vote on Supreme Court nominee — Democrats are delaying for one week an initial committee vote on Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court. — Sen. Chuck Grassley — (R-Iowa), the chairman of the committee, said Democrats had requested …
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Jasper Craven / VTDigger:
Leahy will not vote for Trump's Supreme Court nominee
Leahy will not vote for Trump's Supreme Court nominee
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
60 Minutes Interview Shows How Unprepared The Mainstream Media Is For Pro-Trump Media — You can't confront the pro-Trump Upside Down media without an understanding of its cardinal rule: the New Right media isn't just an opposition force, it's a parallel institution that insists on its own reality.
Alex Lockie / Business Insider:
DICK CHENEY: ‘No question’ Russia meddled in the US election, and it could be ‘an act of war’ — In a wide-ranging speech at the Economic Times' Global Business Summit on Monday, former US Vice President Dick Cheney spoke unequivocally about Russia's meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.
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Cynthia Kroet / Politico:
Germany didn't receive NATO invoice from Trump: government — There is no ‘debt account at NATO,’ says German government spokesman. — A spokesman for the German government on Monday denied media reports that U.S. President Donald Trump handed a multibillion-euro invoice to Chancellor Angela Merkel …
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Maureen Dowd / Vanity Fair:
Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse — Elon Musk is famous for his futuristic gambles, but Silicon Valley's latest rush to embrace artificial intelligence scares him. And he thinks you should be frightened too. Inside his efforts to influence the rapidly advancing field …
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Thomas Groome / New York Times:
To Win Again, Democrats Must Stop Being the Abortion Party — When I came to this country from Ireland some 45 years ago, a cousin, here 15 years before, advised me that Catholics vote Democratic. Having grown up in the Irish Republic, I was well disposed to Republican Party principles like local autonomy and limited government.
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