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New York Times:
Senate Health Bill Would Leave 22 Million More Uninsured, C.B.O. Says — WASHINGTON — The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026, a figure that is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured …
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CBO's Publications:
H.R. 1628, Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 — CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 would reduce federal deficits by $321 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 22 million in 2026 relative to current law.
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Ron Johnson / New York Times:
Where the Senate Health Care Bill Fails — Speaking at a rally for his wife's presidential campaign last year, Bill Clinton called Obamacare “the craziest thing in the world.” As he put it, “The people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.”
Dan Diamond / Politico:
CBO score sure to add to McConnell's headaches — The budget office is poised to tell Senate Republicans their health bill will leave millions more uninsured than Obamacare. — The CBO is poised to tell Senate Republicans this week that their health plan will leave millions more uninsured …
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The Hill:
Senate adds penalty for going uninsured to healthcare bill — Senate Republicans on Monday released a revised version of their healthcare reform bill that adds a provision requiring consumers with a break in coverage to wait six months before buying insurance.
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Jeanne Lambrew / The Hill:
Budget estimate shows GOP bill is about tax cuts for rich, not healthcare
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
This chart shows the stunning trade-off at the heart of the GOP health plan
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ThinkProgress
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Defenses of the Senate Health-Care Plan Are Pathetically Dishonest
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CNNMoney:
22 million fewer Americans insured under Senate GOP bill
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Huckabee: Senate GOP ‘on the pathway to making some major blunders’ with healthcare bill
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
THIS CHART: Premiums Shoot Up For Older Americans Under Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
American Medical Association: ObamaCare repeal violates ‘do no harm’ rule
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Matthew Wisner / Fox Business:
Medicaid will bankrupt every state if we don't have cost controls: Mike Huckabee
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New York Times:
Supreme Court to Hear Travel Ban Case — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Trump to prohibit the entry of some people into the United States from countries he deems dangerous, but the justices imposed strict limits on Mr. Trump's travel ban …
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Mark Sherman / AP News:
Trump travel ban partly reinstated; fall court arguments set — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go forward with a limited version of its ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries, a victory for President Donald Trump in the biggest legal controversy of his young presidency.
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The White House:
Statement from President Donald J. Trump — Today's unanimous Supreme Court decision is a clear victory for our national security. It allows the travel suspension for the six terror-prone countries and the refugee suspension to become largely effective. — As President, I cannot allow people …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court allows limited version of Trump's travel ban to take effect and will consider case in fall
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Marty Lederman / Just Security:
It's All About that Stay (and Its Surprising Limits)
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sides with religious institutions in a major church-state decision
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Trump calls Supreme Court ruling on his travel ban a ‘clear victory’
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Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post:
A ‘very credible’ new study on Seattle's $15 minimum wage has bad news for liberals — When Seattle officials voted three years ago to incrementally boost the city's minimum wage up to $15 an hour, they'd hoped to improve the lives of low-income workers. Yet according to a major new study …
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FiveThirtyEight:
Seattle's Minimum Wage Hike May Have Gone Too Far — As cities across the country pushed their minimum wages to untested heights in recent years, some economists began to ask: How high is too high? — Seattle, with its highest-in-the-country minimum wage, may have hit that limit.
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Economic Policy Institute:
The “high road” Seattle labor market and the effects of the minimum wage increase: Data limitations and methodological problems bias new analysis of Seattle's minimum wage increase — Summary — A team of researchers at the University of Washington has released an analysis of the economic impacts …
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The Atlantic, Washington Free Beacon, Mother Jones and New York Times
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI has questioned Trump campaign adviser Carter Page at length in Russia probe — FBI agents have repeatedly questioned former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page about his contacts with Russians and his interactions with the Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the investigation.
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Talking Points Memo and Politico
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
6 Nobel Prize-winning economists announce opposition to Senate health bill — Forty economists, including six Nobel laureates, sent a letter Monday to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) outlining their opposition to the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senate bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Deborah Kilroe / CBO's Publications:
CBO to release estimate for Senate health care plan Monday afternoon
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would “cause most small employers' premiums to go up”
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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Support for Same-Sex Marriage Grows, Even Among Groups That Had Been Skeptical — For first time, as many Republicans favor as oppose gay marriage — Two years after the Supreme Court decision that required states to recognize same-sex marriages nationwide, support for allowing gays …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices to Hear Case on Religious Objections to Same-Sex Marriage
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Joseph A. Wulfsohn / Mediaite:
College Professor Fired For Posting Online That Otto Warmbier ‘Got What He Deserved’ — The University of Delaware fired a college professor for comments she made online about Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American student who recently passed away after being released from North Korea.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest bizarre tweets about Russia just left him badly exposed — THE MORNING PLUM: — In recent days, President Trump has adopted a fiendishly clever new line on the ongoing Russia probes: He will fully acknowledge that Russia did try to sabotage our election …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump believes Russia ‘probably’ behind election hacking
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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Justice Gorsuch Already Showing Himself to Be Among Court's Most Conservative Justices — There was a lot of dissembling when Justice Gorsuch was nominated to the Supreme Court, that he was some kind of blank slate, without preconceived ideas about how he would rule as a Supreme Court Justice.
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Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds
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Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Audiences of Broadway's graphic portrayal of ‘1984’ faint and vomit — A night at the theater generally involves dressing to the nines, perhaps dinner beforehand at a nearby restaurant and finally the play. Fainting, vomiting, screaming and fighting are not typically part of the experience.
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Wall Street Journal:
China's All-Seeing Surveillance State Is Reading Its Citizens' Faces — In vast social-engineering experiment, facial-recognition systems crunch data from ubiquitous cameras to monitor citizens — SHENZHEN—Gan Liping pumped her bike across a busy street, racing to beat a crossing light before it turned red.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Kushner adds powerhouse lawyer Abbe Lowell to legal team — Jared Kushner has hired Abbe Lowell, one of the country's leading criminal defense lawyers, to represent him in the special counsel's probe of potential Russian collusion with the Trump campaign and his financial dealings, as well as in separate congressional inquiries.
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