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New York Times:
Senate Health Bill Reels as C.B.O. Predicts 22 Million More Uninsured — WASHINGTON — The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act was edging toward collapse on Monday after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said it would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026.
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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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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Page 48 is the most important page in the CBO report — This is the web version of VoxCare, a daily newsletter from Vox on the latest twists and turns in America's health care debate. Like what you're reading? Sign up to get VoxCare in your inbox here. — The Congressional Budget …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The most devastating passage in the CBO's report on the Senate health bill — The CBO says “few low-income people would purchase any plan” under GOP health bill. — The Congressional Budget Office has released its analysis of the Senate GOP's Better Care Reconciliation Act, and it's a bloodbath.
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
CBO score sure to add to McConnell's headaches
CBO score sure to add to McConnell's headaches
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ABC News, Axios, The Outline and CBS Philly
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
Jeanne Lambrew / The Hill:
Budget estimate shows GOP bill is about tax cuts for rich, not healthcare
Budget estimate shows GOP bill is about tax cuts for rich, not healthcare
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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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The Hill:
Senate adds penalty for going uninsured to healthcare bill
Senate adds penalty for going uninsured to healthcare bill
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RedState, CNN and The Daily Caller
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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Political Wire and The Daily Caller
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
CBO: Senate GOP health-care bill would leave 22 million more people uninsured by 2026
CBO: Senate GOP health-care bill would leave 22 million more people uninsured by 2026
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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
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Three journalists leaving CNN after retracted article — Three CNN journalists, including the executive editor in charge of a new investigative unit, have resigned after the publication of a Russia-related article that was retracted. — Thomas Frank, who wrote the story in question …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Three CNN employees resign over retracted story on Russia ties — Thomas Frank, a reporter for “CNN Investigates,” last Thursday appeared to have a compelling exclusive on the story of the year. The Senate Intelligence Committee, reported Frank, was investigating a Russian investment fund …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Three Employees Resign from CNN Amid Very Fake News Scandal — Three CNN employees have resigned amid the network's very fake news scandal in which it was forced to retract a hit piece on President Donald Trump and his associates. — “CNN said Monday that three journalists …
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New York Times
New York Times:
Supreme Court Takes Up Travel Ban Case, and Allows Parts to Go Ahead — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday 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 …
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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
Thomas Phippen / The Daily Caller:
Justice Thomas Calls Out The Supreme Court For Not Believing In The Second Amendment
Justice Thomas Calls Out The Supreme Court For Not Believing In The Second Amendment
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Politico, SARAH PALIN, No More Mister Nice Blog and Axios
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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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Justice Gorsuch Already Showing Himself to Be Among Court's Most Conservative Justices
Justice Gorsuch Already Showing Himself to Be Among Court's Most Conservative Justices
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RedState and Above the Law
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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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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Pew Research Center:
U.S. Image Suffers as Publics Around World Question Trump's Leadership — America still wins praise for its people, culture and civil liberties — Although he has only been in office a few months, Donald Trump's presidency has had a major impact on how the world sees the United States.
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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
Trump believes Russia ‘probably’ behind election hacking
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ABC News
Caroline Kenny / CNN:
Trump confirms he called health care bill ‘mean’
Trump confirms he called health care bill ‘mean’
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The Atlantic, Mediaite, Political Wire and Gizmodo
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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Associated Press, RedState, Forbes and Political Wire
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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BuzzFeed, Axios and Talking Points Memo
Daily Mail:
College fires professor who said Otto Warmbier ‘deserved’ to die because he was a ‘young, rich clueless, white male’ who ‘never had to face the consequences of his actions’ — University of Delaware has cut ties with professor Katherine Dettwyler after she said Otto Warmbier ‘deserved’ to die for stealing a poster in North Korea
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The Review, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, IJR and Campus Reform
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Joseph A. Wulfsohn / Mediaite:
College Professor Fired For Posting Online That Otto Warmbier ‘Got What He Deserved’
College Professor Fired For Posting Online That Otto Warmbier ‘Got What He Deserved’
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Ben Conarck / Florida Times Union:
Video shows Jacksonville cop threatening young black man with jail after jaywalking — A viral video posted to Facebook last week shows a Jacksonville sheriff's officer threatening a young black man with jail time after he crossed the street without a walk signal.
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Fusion
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
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
The Pentagon promised citizenship to immigrants who served. Now it might help deport them. — The Pentagon is considering a plan to cancel enlistment contracts for 1,000 foreign-born recruits without legal immigration status, knowingly exposing them to deportation, a Defense Department memo shows.
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Political Wire