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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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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 …

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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CBO score sure to add to McConnell's headaches
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Budget estimate shows GOP bill is about tax cuts for rich, not healthcare
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This chart shows the stunning trade-off at the heart of the GOP health plan
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CBO Score of Senate Health Bill Is Grim — But Gives McConnell Wiggle Room
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The Defenses of the Senate Health-Care Plan Are Pathetically Dishonest
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Senate adds penalty for going uninsured to healthcare bill
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Huckabee: Senate GOP ‘on the pathway to making some major blunders’ with healthcare bill
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Medicaid will bankrupt every state if we don't have cost controls: Mike Huckabee
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Senate GOP health-care bill appears in deeper trouble following new CBO report
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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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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 …

Three Employees Resign from CNN Amid Very Fake News Scandal
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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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Trump travel ban partly reinstated; fall court arguments set
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It's All About that Stay (and Its Surprising Limits)
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Justice Thomas Calls Out The Supreme Court For Not Believing In The Second Amendment
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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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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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Seattle's Minimum Wage Hike May Have Gone Too Far
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White House Says Syria May Be Preparing Another Chemical Attack, Warns Assad Will “Pay A Heavy Price” — “The United States has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said.
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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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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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Trump believes Russia ‘probably’ behind election hacking
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Trump confirms he called health care bill ‘mean’
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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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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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College Professor Fired For Posting Online That Otto Warmbier ‘Got What He Deserved’
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Despite tweet, McCaskill attended reception at Russian ambassador's home — McCain questions Sessions about Russia meeting — Washington (CNN)In March, Sen. Claire McCaskill was unambiguous. The Missouri Democrat said she never once met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak …
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Alec Baldwin will return to ‘SNL’ as Donald Trump — Alec Baldwin told CNN he will return to ‘SNL’ as Donald Trump this fall despite his busy schedule — (CNN)Alec Baldwin is about to make your television great again. — The 59-year-old actor said that he will be bringing …


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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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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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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