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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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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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Occupy Democrats, Raw Story, Washington Post and Axios
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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Politico, Hot Air, Shakesville and The Week
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Republicans are still very far from repealing Obamacare — It all comes down to turnout. — Suddenly, House Republicans sure seem like they are starting to move again on their previously stunted quest to repeal and replace Obamacare. — But where that movement is actually heading is not yet clear.
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Republicans' new health amendment lets insurers charge sick people more, cover less
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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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Vox and The Daily Caller
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Arthur Laffer's Theory on Tax Cuts Comes to Life Once More — WASHINGTON — A white cloth napkin, now displayed in the National Museum of American History, helped change the course of modern economics. On it, the economist Arthur Laffer in 1974 sketched a curve meant to illustrate his theory …
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Business Insider and The Resurgent
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Instead of launching tax reform, Trump could ground it
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Axios, Mother Jones, Bloomberg and Talking Points Memo
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
Donald Trump's Massive Corporate Tax Cut Literally Cannot Pass Congress
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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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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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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
Howard Dean doubles down on support for UC Berkeley excluding Ann Coulter
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump attacks judiciary for blocking order on sanctuary cities — President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on the nation's judiciary Wednesday, blaming the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for the ruling by a federal district court judge that blocked Trump'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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Politico, Political Wire and Associated Press
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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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 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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Mathew Burciaga / The Greybull Standard:
Enzi's comments at Greybull High School stir controversy
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Business Insider
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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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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Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
Full Senate heads to rare classified meeting at the White House on North Korea — In an unusual move, all 100 senators were invited to attend a classified meeting later Wednesday at the White House to discuss the North Korea and its growing bellicosity. — Congressional aides told Reuters …
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Fox News Insider:
Judge Who Blocked Trump Sanctuary City Order Bundled $200K for Obama — Federal Judge William Orrick III, who on Tuesday blocked President Trump's order to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities, reportedly bundled hundreds of thousands of dollars for President Barack Obama.
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BizPac Review, The Last Tradition, The Daily Caller and SARAH PALIN
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New York Post:
When will Obama have made enough money? — Cantor Fitzgerald LP will pay former President Barack Obama $400,000 to speak at a conference in September, likely the first of many lucrative Wall Street paydays. — Good for him. — SEE ALSO — Obama doesn't really need the money …
Amanda Watts / CNN:
Cops use murdered woman's Fitbit to charge her husband — (CNN)The attack, as Richard Dabate described it to police, was horrific. — A masked intruder barged into his Connecticut home, he said, tied up and tortured him and — when his wife came home — shot and killed her.
Chrissacca / LOWERCASE capital:
Hanging up my spurs. — A couple years ago, my wife Crystal and I were cleaning out our garage in Truckee when we came across an old notebook of mine from when I lived in Ireland at age 20. Back then, a friend had asked me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
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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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