memeorandum: ‘This Week’ Transcript 6-25-17: Kellyanne Conway, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Susan Collins, and Sen. Rand Paul (ABC News)

Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes — ORANGE, Va. — Alice Jacobs, 90, once owned a factory and horses. She has raised four children and buried two husbands. — But years in an assisted living center drained her savings, and now she relies on Medicaid to pay for her care …

Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:

Senate health-care bill faces serious resistance from GOP moderates — A small group of moderate Republican senators, worried that their leaders' health-care bill could damage the nation's social safety net, may pose at least as significant an obstacle to the measure's passage as their colleagues on the right.

Discussion: The Week, Balkinization and New York Times

Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:

The Kabuki Theater of the AHCA — The United States has never had a Senate leader as ruthless, as willing to bend, distort and break the rules, traditions and precedents of the Senate as Mitch McConnell. And the Senate has probably never had a majority leader as effective at accomplishing …

Josh Delk / The Hill:

Koch political leader says GOP healthcare bill not conservative enough — Leaders in the Koch brothers' influential political network bashed the new Senate Republican health care legislation attempting to replace the ObamaCare for not being conservative enough, The Associated Press reports.

Discussion: ABC News and The Week

Price invites GOP foes of Obamacare overhaul to keep talking — A top Trump administration official leading Obamacare overhaul efforts sought Sunday to placate members of his own party in the Senate who are opposing legislation unveiled last week. — Tom Price, secretary of Health and Human Services …

Discussion: RedState

Associated Press:
Trump: Not ‘that far off’ from passing health overhaul

Discussion: Politico

James Hohmann / Washington Post:
Koch network withholding support of Senate health-care bill, pushing for changes

Discussion: Political Wire

Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Koch network ramps up political spending while trying to push Trump team

Discussion: ABC News

United States Senator Mike Lee:
The Missing Ingredient in BCRA: Humility

Discussion: CNN, RedState and Weekly Standard

Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
In Health Care Attacks, Democrats Risk Inciting Further Violence

Discussion: Althouse, The Gateway Pundit, TheBlaze, AOL, Talking Points Memo, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Washington Free Beacon, USA Today and IJR

Paul Sperry / New York Post:

Sketchy firm behind Trump dossier is stalling investigators — A secretive Washington firm that commissioned the dubious intelligence dossier on Donald Trump is stonewalling congressional investigators trying to learn more about its connections to the Democratic Party.

Discussion: Power Line and Instapundit

Julian Assange / TwitLonger:

TwitLonger — Why the Democratic party is doomed: — 1. The Democratic establishment has vortexed the party's narrative energy into hysteria about Russia (a state with a lower GDP than South Korea). It is starkly obvious that were it not for this hysteria insurgent narratives …

Discussion: RT, TheBlaze and The Gateway Pundit

Michael Kruse / Politico:

I Found Trump's Diary—Hiding in Plain Sight — Lots of people want President Trump to stop tweeting. Mitch McConnell wants him to stop tweeting. Carly Fiorina wants him to stop tweeting. Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins and other Republican members of Congress and some Democrats …

USA Today:

Woman suspected of setting Iowa mosque on fire … Police in Iowa arrested a 22-year-old woman suspected of starting a small fire at an Iowa mosque Thursday morning. — Des Moines firefighters and police were called to the Islamic Center of Des Moines about 10 a.m. There had been a small fire …

Discussion: WHOTV, The Gateway Pundit and creepingsharia.wordpress.com

ABC News:

‘This Week’ Transcript 6-25-17: Kellyanne Conway, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Susan Collins, and Sen. Rand Paul — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on June 25, 2017 and it will be updated. — GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC HOST: Now for the Democratic response, we're joined by the Senate Democratic Leader, Chuck Schumer.

Discussion: Politico and The Week

ABC News:

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Discussion: The Daily Caller

Bruce Bialosky / Townhall.com:

Congress Needs to Forget Trump and His Tweets and Pass the Big Bills — Democrats want to derail any positive activity by the Republican Congress by investigating a phantom Russian crime. But why do people like Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY) step in front of a microphone and say, “I'm not a fan of the daily tweets.”