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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Kellyanne Conway on Senate health bill: ‘These are not cuts to Medicaid’ — Presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway asserted Sunday that the Senate health care bill does not propose cuts to Medicaid, despite projections that it would cut the federal health insurance program by $800 billion.
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Ryan Koronowski / ThinkProgress:
Trump advisers claim GOP health care bill won't cut Medicaid. It will. — It's a big reason why just 38 percent of people know Trumpcare cuts Medicaid. — The Senate health care bill makes massive cuts to Medicaid. But you wouldn't know that just from listening to Trump administration officials on the Sunday shows.
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Kaiser Health News and Daily Kos
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans face key week as more senators waver in their support for health care bill … Senate Republicans and the White House are facing down an increasingly daunting challenge to secure the votes necessary to pass legislation before the July 4 congressional recess …
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Axios
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Tom Price promises GOP won't pull ‘rug out’ on health care
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Health Law Repeal Leaves Nevada Republican Torn Between Lawmakers
Health Law Repeal Leaves Nevada Republican Torn Between Lawmakers
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The Nevada Independent
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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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 …
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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National Review and Balkinization
John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Moscow Is Finally Recalling Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak — After nearly ten years at the nexus of US-Russia relations, Washington's most radioactive diplomat is headed home … Ending one the most turbulent tenures of a Washington-based ambassador in recent memory …
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Newsweek, Axios, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Democrats ‘better stand for something,’ says party's Senate leader — Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said in the wake of his party's most recent loss in a congressional special election that Democrats “better stand for something.” — Schumer told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on …
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Associated Press, twitchy.com and TheBlaze
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Freedom Caucus holds fire on Senate Obamacare repeal bill
Freedom Caucus holds fire on Senate Obamacare repeal bill
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The Week and New York Times
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 6-25-17: Kellyanne Conway, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Susan Collins, and Sen. Rand Paul
‘This Week’ Transcript 6-25-17: Kellyanne Conway, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Susan Collins, and Sen. Rand Paul
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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RedState
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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Power Line, MILO NEWS, IJR, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News Insider and Instapundit
Intern / FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV:
Restaurant owner says nearby Confederate flag is hurting his business — ORANGEBURG, S. C. — A Confederate flag flies high above a South Carolina restaurant. — Some customers hate it, including the restaurant's owner, but he says he can't do anything about it.
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Democrats are fielding a glut of House candidates in 2018 but remain divided on how to win — DALLAS — The largest number of Democratic congressional candidates in decades are putting into play dozens of House districts across the country, raising the possibility of a bitterly contested …
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Julian Assange / TwitLonger:
TwitLonger — Why the Democratic party is doomed:
TwitLonger — Why the Democratic party is doomed:
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TheBlaze, RT and The Gateway Pundit
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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Kelly Maricle / WHOTV:
Woman Charged with Arson in Fire at Des Moines Mosque
Woman Charged with Arson in Fire at Des Moines Mosque
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Pilot urges prayers as ‘technical issue’ forces turnaround — (CNN)An AirAsia X flight to Malaysia from Perth, Australia, was forced to turn back Sunday after the twin-aisle Airbus A330-300 aircraft began shaking due to what the airline called a “technical issue.”
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Antithesis of Obstruction — Trump did not obstruct a valid FBI investigation; he demanded the exposure of a false one. — The “collusion” narrative was a fraud, plain and simple. We know that now. Hopefully, it won't take another six months to grasp a second plain and simple truth …
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neo-neocon
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 …
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Outside the Beltway