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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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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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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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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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Tax Foundation, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, FiveThirtyEight and Axios
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Ryan likely to get rolled on tax reform — Donald Trump is set to steamroll Paul Ryan on tax reform, the issue the speaker has devoted his political career to achieving. — But don't expect Ryan to relinquish his pet cause easily. — The White House on Wednesday will drop the outlines …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Plans to Seek Tax Rate of 15% on Owner-Operated Companies — Beyond proposed cut from 39.6%, president wants to slash corporate levies on firms' foreign profits — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Wednesday is planning to unveil a proposal to cut corporate taxes …
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Trump has a plan to change the tax code to make himself much, much richer
Trump has a plan to change the tax code to make himself much, much richer
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Instead of launching tax reform, Trump could ground it
Instead of launching tax reform, Trump could ground it
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Slate, Mother Jones, Bloomberg and New York Magazine
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.”
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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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Political Wire and Associated Press
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Workers endured long hours, low pay at Chinese factory used by Ivanka Trump's clothing-maker
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
Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Blocked by Federal Judge
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The Huffington Post:
Judge Blocks Donald Trump's Executive Order On Sanctuary Cities
Judge Blocks Donald Trump's Executive Order On Sanctuary Cities
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Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ORDER ON SANCTUARY CITY FUNDING
JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ORDER ON SANCTUARY CITY FUNDING
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Judge Rules That Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Is “Clearly Unconstitutional”
Federal Judge Rules That Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Is “Clearly Unconstitutional”
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Judge blocks part of Trump's sanctuary cities executive order
Judge blocks part of Trump's sanctuary cities executive order
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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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Christopher Wallace / Fox News:
UC Berkeley riots: Violence looms as mayor questioned over ties to extremist group
UC Berkeley riots: Violence looms as mayor questioned over ties to extremist group
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Charlie Nash / Breitbart:
YAF Pulls Out of Ann Coulter Berkeley Event, Blames College for Allowing ‘Hostile Atmosphere’
YAF Pulls Out of Ann Coulter Berkeley Event, Blames College for Allowing ‘Hostile Atmosphere’
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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
Howard Dean doubles down on support for UC Berkeley excluding Ann Coulter
Howard Dean doubles down on support for UC Berkeley excluding Ann Coulter
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Damian J. Penny, Above the Law, Hit & Run and Townhall.com
Dean Karayanis / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Looks Like Trump Is Caving on Funding the Wall — RUSH: I'm not happy to have to pass this on. I'm very, very troubled to have to pass this on. And I want to say at the outset that I hope my interpretation is wrong, and I hope this is not the case. But it looks like, from here …
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BizPac Review, Washington Post, Fox News, TheBlaze, Hot Air, Mediaite, Business Insider, Mickey Kaus, Politico, Daily Wire, Talking Points Memo and AOL
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Budget director: Trump would sign a funding bill without wall money
Budget director: Trump would sign a funding bill without wall money
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and TheBlaze
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Limbaugh: Looks like Trump is ‘caving’ on border wall
Limbaugh: Looks like Trump is ‘caving’ on border wall
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CNN, Politico, portal.liberalamerica.org, The Week and Talking Points Memo
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 — Troubles at Fox News compounded yet again on Tuesday, with the emergence of new allegations of racial discrimination at the company coming less than a week after the ouster of the network's star Bill O'Reilly.
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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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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
Marine Le Pen May Get a Lift From an Unlikely Source: The Far Left
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The Reality-Based Community
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 …
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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Washington Post, The Hill, RedState and Political Wire
Justin Green / Axios:
Ted Cruz introduces “EL CHAPO Act” to pay for the wall — Senator Ted Cruz wants to use assets seized from drug lords such as El Chapo, the Mexican kingpin who was recently extradited to the U.S., to pay for border security and the border wall. — The idea: U.S. prosecutors …
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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
KWWL-TV:
Iowa State Patrol Investigators inspecting crash involving Chris Soules — The Buchanan County Sheriff's Office says Chris Soules has been arrested for leaving the scene of a deadly crash. — Soules, who's from Arlington, is well known for starring in the show “The Bachelor.”
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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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