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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.”
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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RedState and The Daily Caller
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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ABC News and The Outline
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
This chart shows the stunning trade-off at the heart of the GOP health plan
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
The Defenses of the Senate Health-Care Plan Are Pathetically Dishonest
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Vox, Forbes, MSNBC, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, Washington Post and American Prospect
CNNMoney:
22 million fewer Americans insured under Senate GOP bill
22 million fewer Americans insured under Senate GOP bill
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Vox, Above the Law, Shareblue and Fusion
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Huckabee: Senate GOP ‘on the pathway to making some major blunders’ with healthcare bill
Huckabee: Senate GOP ‘on the pathway to making some major blunders’ with healthcare bill
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RedState
Deborah Kilroe / CBO's Publications:
CBO to release estimate for Senate health care plan Monday afternoon
CBO to release estimate for Senate health care plan Monday afternoon
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Politico and Shakesville
Matthew Wisner / Fox Business:
Medicaid will bankrupt every state if we don't have cost controls: Mike Huckabee
Medicaid will bankrupt every state if we don't have cost controls: Mike Huckabee
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The Daily Caller
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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Fusion and Shakesville
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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Daily Wire, Shakesville, New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit, The Week, SARAH PALIN, CBS Philly, Judicial Watch, Fox News Insider and Vox Popoli
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court allows limited version of Trump's travel ban to take effect and will consider case in fall
Supreme Court allows limited version of Trump's travel ban to take effect and will consider case in fall
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Politico, ABC News, Axios, TheBlaze, National Review, Little Green Footballs and Balloon Juice
Marty Lederman / Just Security:
It's All About that Stay (and Its Surprising Limits)
It's All About that Stay (and Its Surprising Limits)
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The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Take Care Blog, Occupy Democrats, Lawfare and electionlawblog.org
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sides with religious institutions in a major church-state decision
Supreme Court sides with religious institutions in a major church-state decision
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Power Line, Politico, SCOTUSblog, ABC News, neo-neocon and Outside the Beltway
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Trump calls Supreme Court ruling on his travel ban a ‘clear victory’
Trump calls Supreme Court ruling on his travel ban a ‘clear victory’
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ThinkProgress, Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, RedState, Slate, Mother Jones and 24Ahead
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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Power Line, Los Angeles Times, IJR, National Review, Weekly Standard, The Daily Caller and CityLab
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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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Forbes, The Daily Signal, neo-neocon, Marginal REVOLUTION, The Week and Glenn Beck
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
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
THIS CHART: Premiums Shoot Up For Older Americans Under Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill — The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive think tank, on Monday released an analysis of the effects of Senate Republicans' Obamacare repeal bill on health care premiums.
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Center on Budget … and Hullabaloo
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
American Medical Association: ObamaCare repeal violates ‘do no harm’ rule
American Medical Association: ObamaCare repeal violates ‘do no harm’ rule
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RedState, Associated Press, Forbes and Political Wire
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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ThinkProgress, CNN, Breitbart, Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, RedState, IJR, Outside the Beltway, Salon, The Federalist, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, The Week and NBC News
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump believes Russia ‘probably’ behind election hacking
Trump believes Russia ‘probably’ behind election hacking
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ABC News
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
Justices to Hear Case on Religious Objections to Same-Sex Marriage
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Patterico's Pontifications, Vox, TheBlaze, Mashable, Outside the Beltway and Political Wire
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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delawareonline, TheBlaze, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, MILO NEWS, Daily Wire, University of Delaware and The Daily Caller
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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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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would “cause most small employers' premiums to go up”
Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would “cause most small employers' premiums to go up”
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ABC News, Axios and Media Matters for America
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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RedState and Above the Law
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Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds
Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds
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NPR, Washington Free Beacon and IJR
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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Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Caller
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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Axios
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.