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Jordan Rau / New York Times:
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 …
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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.
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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.
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Patrick Temple-West / Politico:
Price invites GOP foes of Obamacare overhaul to keep talking
Price invites GOP foes of Obamacare overhaul to keep talking
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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.
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
I Found Trump's Diary—Hiding in Plain Sight — Lots of people want President Donald 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 …
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 …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Beyond opposing Trump, Democrats keep searching for a message
Beyond opposing Trump, Democrats keep searching for a message
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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 …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Donald Skunks the Democrats — WASHINGTON — YOU know who is really sick and tired of Donald Trump winning, to the point where they beg, “Please, Mr. President, sir, it's too much”? — Democrats. — The Democrats just got skunked four to nothing in races they excitedly thought …
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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.
Jerome Hudson / Breitbart:
Black Unemployment at Lowest Level in 17 Years — Unemployment among black Americans ages 16 years and over fell to 7.5 percent in May, its lowest level since December 2000. — Black unemployment has been on the decline since February — falling from (February) 8.1, (March) 8.0, (April) …
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ABC News:
Donald Trump promises to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare — Coming up in the next {{countdown}} {{countdownlbl}} — Coming up next: — {{nextVideo.title}} — {{nextVideo.description}} — Skip to this video now — Related Extras Related Videos Video Transcript
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
Koch network withholding support of Senate health-care bill, pushing for changes — COLORADO SPRINGS — The Koch network is working with conservative allies behind the scenes to make changes to the Senate health-care bill that was unveiled this week, declining to endorse the measure as it stands.
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Koch network ramps up political spending while trying to push Trump team
Koch network ramps up political spending while trying to push Trump team
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