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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal — Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff. — House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts Members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House Freedom Caucus leaders back new health-care plan — White House officials and several Republican lawmakers claimed Tuesday they were nearing a deal on health-care legislation with the House Freedom Caucus, with at least three leading figures in the hard-line group ready to support …
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Shakesville and The Week
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
House GOP health bill changes exempt members of Congress — A new amendment to the Republican ObamaCare replacement bill exempts members of Congress and their staff from its effects. — The new changes to the bill would allow states to apply for waivers to repeal key ObamaCare provisions …
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Health Affairs Blog, Raw Story, Washington Post and Axios
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Republicans' new health amendment lets insurers charge sick people more, cover less — House Republicans are floating a new amendment to their health care bill, one that would likely cause even more Americans to lose coverage than the last version. — The American Health Care Act …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Apparently repealing Obamacare could violate international law — We've already seen that repealing Obamacare is politically perilous. Now there's a new complication: It may also violate international law. — The United Nations has contacted the Trump administration as part of an investigation …
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New York Times:
Trump's Tax Plan: Low Rate for Corporations, and for Companies Like His — President Trump plans to unveil a tax cut blueprint on Wednesday that would apply a vastly reduced, 15 percent business tax rate not only to corporations but also to companies that now pay taxes through the personal income tax code …
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump to propose large increase in deductions Americans can claim on their taxes — President Trump on Wednesday plans to call for a significant increase in the standard deduction people can claim on their tax returns, potentially putting thousands of dollars each year into the pockets of tens …
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Instead of launching tax reform, Trump could ground it — President Donald Trump on Wednesday will release a plan to radically overhaul the American tax code that many Republicans say is unrealistic and could end up hurting the chances of getting anything done on the issue, long one of the party's top priorities.
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Lynnley Browning / Bloomberg:
Trump's 15% Corporate Tax Plan May Just Be His Opening Gambit
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Trump has a plan to change the tax code to make himself much, much richer
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Plans to Seek Tax Rate of 15% on Owner-Operated Companies
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Arthur Laffer's Theory on Tax Cuts Comes to Life Once More
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The Resurgent
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
Donald Trump's Massive Corporate Tax Cut Literally Cannot Pass Congress
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's tax day — THE BIG STORY: The tax reform push is shaping up as the purest slice of the Trump agenda yet, an effort, mostly independent of Congress, to distill the president's ideas into a bold legislative concept. As such, it appears disjointed and haphazard …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump attacks judiciary for blocking order on sanctuary cities — President Donald Trump renewed his attacks against the nation's judiciary on Wednesday, blaming the 9th circuit court system for a federal judge's ruling that blocked his administration's move to deny federal funding to so-called “sanctuary cities.”
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Workers endured long hours, low pay at Chinese factory used by Ivanka Trump's clothing-maker
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Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg:
Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Blocked by Federal Judge
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Washington Post:
UC-Berkeley readies police as Ann Coulter plans to speak in public plaza on campus — The University of California at Berkeley is bracing for massive protests in a public plaza on campus after learning that conservative commentator Ann Coulter plans to give a speech there Thursday afternoon.
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Charlie Nash / Breitbart:
YAF Pulls Out of Ann Coulter Berkeley Event, Blames College for Allowing ‘Hostile Atmosphere’
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Christopher Wallace / Fox News:
UC Berkeley riots: Violence looms as mayor questioned over ties to extremist group
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Gregory Holyk / ABC News:
Views on Russian influence reflect partisan finger-pointing (POLL) — It's a partisan cold war right here at home: A majority of Democrats think now-President Donald Trump's campaign tried to help Russia influence the 2016 election, while a majority of Republicans think former President …
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The Hill, Washington Post, RedState, Political Wire, The Week and Mediaite
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News anchor joins lawsuit alleging racial discrimination, harassment at network — Fox News still under grand jury probe — Fox News' legal troubles grew even larger Tuesday, with new plaintiffs, including an anchor, joining a suit alleging racial discrimination and harassment at the network.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Fox News Faces New Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Slow pace of Trump nominations leaves Cabinet agencies ‘stuck’ in staffing limbo — President Trump's Cabinet secretaries are growing exasperated at how slowly the White House is moving to fill hundreds of top-tier posts, warning that the vacancies are hobbling efforts to oversee agency operations …
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Budget director: Trump would sign a funding bill without wall money — Mulvaney: Trump open to bill without wall fund — Washington (CNN)With a potential government shutdown set for Friday at midnight, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney confirmed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump would …
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Dean Karayanis / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Looks Like Trump Is Caving on Funding the Wall
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Gregory Viscusi / Bloomberg:
Le Pen Ducks Euro Exit Question Knowing French Want the Currency — She softens euro stance with lack of poplular support in mind — In television interview, Le Pen says she feels ‘European’ — French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen sought to soften her position on Europe …
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Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
Marine Le Pen May Get a Lift From an Unlikely Source: The Far Left
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Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
The US just lost a trade battle with Mexico — Canada's foreign minister: Lumber tax will hurt Americans — The US just lost a trade battle with Mexico. It's the first loss of the Trump era. — Mexico and the US have fought for years over tuna. The US insists that any Mexican tuna sold …
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Politicus USA, Occupy Democrats and FEE
Charles R. Kesler / New York Times:
Donald Trump Is a Real Republican, and That's a Good Thing — Claremont, Calif. — What kind of conservative is President Trump? He must be some kind of conservative, because for nearly 100 days and counting, liberals have poured on him the kind of vitriol they do not reserve for moderates or ideological nobodys.
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The biggest story of Trump's first 100 days? His survival — MORE FROM: … Unless the world ends before Saturday, most assessments of President Trump's first 100 days will include a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. The emphasis will reveal more about those doing the grading than Trump himself.
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The Huffington Post:
Sen. Mike Enzi: A Guy Who Wears A Tutu To A Bar ‘Kind Of Asks For It’ — The Wyoming senator was speaking to a group of high school and middle school students. — Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) told a group of high school and middle school students last week that it's fine to be a member of the lesbian …
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