memeorandum: Tom Price promises GOP won't pull ‘rug out’ on health care (Eli Watkins/CNN)

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.

Discussion: Balkinization

Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Health Law Repeal Leaves Nevada Republican Torn Between Lawmakers

Discussion: The Nevada Independent

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.

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Talking Points Memo

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

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

Discussion: Politico and The Week

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 …

Eli Watkins / CNN:

Tom Price promises GOP won't pull ‘rug out’ on health care — Washington (CNN)Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price defended the GOP health care plan Sunday from Republicans opposing the bill. — Price said on CNN's “State of the Union” that Nevada Sen. Dean Heller …

Discussion: RedState

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

Discussion: Politico and The Week

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 …

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: TheBlaze, RT and The Gateway Pundit

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, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News Insider and Instapundit

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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Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Gateway Pundit

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.

Discussion: The Root and Raw Story

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 …

Rachael Bade / Politico:

Freedom Caucus holds fire on Senate Obamacare repeal bill — The most hard-line conservatives in the House are taking an unusually cautious approach to the Senate's Obamacare replacement, promising to keep an open mind about whatever their colleagues across the Capitol send back.

Discussion: The Week and New York Times

Discussion: Political Wire

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

ACLU:

New TSA Policy May Lead to Increased Scrutiny of Reading Material — The TSA is testing new requirements that passengers remove books and other paper goods from their carry-on baggage when going through airline security. Given the sensitivity of our reading choices, this raises privacy concerns.

Discussion: The Hill