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On Senate Health Bill, Trump Falters in the Closer's Role — WASHINGTON — President Trump began his all-hands meeting with Republican senators at the White House on Tuesday by saying they were “very close” to passing a health care bill, just as efforts to fast-track a vote this week collapsed.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Inside the GOP's surprise health care flop — Senate Republicans had no inkling of what they were walking into on Tuesday afternoon as they filed into the Mike Mansfield room on the Capitol's second floor. — Mitch McConnell's 51 colleagues, from his most junior members to his closest lieutenants …
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Just 17 Percent Of Americans Approve Of Republican Senate Health Care Bill — Americans broadly disapprove of the Senate GOP's health care bill, and they're unhappy with how Republicans are handling the efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, according to a new NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Senate GOP seethes at Trump impulsiveness — Top GOP officials and senators say White House chaos and impulsiveness are crippling efforts to expand the Republican Senate majority in 2018, unraveling long-laid plans and needlessly jeopardizing incumbents. — There's a widespread sense …
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
How Governors From Both Parties Plotted to Derail the Senate Health Bill — WASHINGTON — A once-quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington on Tuesday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months …
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Don't be fooled: the Senate's Obamacare repeal effort remains very alive — The Senate health care bill, in its current form, is dead. — The Senate health care debate is not over. — Sound familiar? — Sign up for VoxCare — Vox's daily email explaining the biggest news in health care, edited by Sarah Kliff
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Trump Fails To Reach Beyond Base, As Independents' Disapproval Grows — President Trump's support has eroded with independent voters since he took office. Though he still clings to a loyal base of supporters, his overall disapproval among Americans has reached record highs, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
Aida Chavez / The Hill:
Support for Senate healthcare bill at 17 percent in NPR poll — Support for the Senate GOP's healthcare legislation stands at just 17 percent in a new NPR poll. — Slightly more than half of all respondents, 55 percent, disapprove of the legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
‘Repeal and replace’ was once a unifier for the GOP. Now it's an albatross.
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Washington Post:
Who's afraid of Trump? Not enough Republicans — at least for now.
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Jim Newell / Slate:
The Bill Lives — GOP senators delay the health care vote …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
McConnell's Reputation as a Master Tactician Takes a Hit
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: Senate GOP ‘very close’ to agreement on health bill
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sarah Palin Sues New York Times, Claiming Editorial Defamed Her — Sarah Palin, former vice-presidential candidate, filed a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times Company on Tuesday, saying the newspaper had published a statement about her in a recent editorial that it “knew to be false.”
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Trump Campaign Chief's Firm Got $17 Million From Pro-Russia Party — Paul Manafort, who was forced out as President Trump's campaign chairman last summer after five months of infighting and criticism about his business dealings with pro-Russian interests, disclosed on Tuesday that his consulting firm …
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
A Time Magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It's fake. — The framed copy of Time Magazine was hung up in at least four of President Trump's golf clubs, from South Florida to Scotland. Filling the entire cover was a photo of Donald Trump.
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Sarah D / Los Angeles Times:
L.A.'s newest congressman still hasn't taken his oath. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy wants to know why — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) wants to know why Rep.-elect Jimmy Gomez hasn't been sworn in, saying the seat's “elongated vacancy” is “an abdication” of his responsibilities.
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Reuters:
Helicopter attacks Venezuela court, Maduro denounces coup bid — A Venezuelan police helicopter strafed the Supreme Court and a government ministry on Tuesday, escalating the OPEC nation's political crisis in what President Nicolas Maduro called an attack by “terrorists” seeking a coup.
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Emily Smith / New York Post:
CNN faced $100M lawsuit over botched Russia story — The specter of a $100 million libel suit scared CNN into retracting a poorly reported story that slimed an ally of President Trump's — and forcing out the staffers responsible for it, The Post has learned. — SEE ALSO
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WATCH | Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe is being investigated by the Office of U.S. Special Counsel for violating The Hatch Act that prohibits FBI agents from campaigning in partisan races. — The Office of U.S. Special Counsel, the government's main whistleblower agency …
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Mike Wilson / Dallas Morning News:
How news organizations, including this one, unintentionally misinformed the public on guns — Steve Doud, a subscriber from Plano, emailed me to say he'd read something in the June 21 Dallas Morning News that couldn't possibly be true. — An eight-paragraph Washington Post article …
Art Swift / Gallup:
In US, Confidence in Newspapers Still Low but Rising — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite an ongoing controversy over “fake news,” more Americans this year (27%) say they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers than did so last year (20%).
Jake Sherman / Politico:
TICK-TOCK on the GOP's health-care ‘flop’ — HOW TRUMP can turn it around — PRO-TRUMP group pulls ads — FAHRENTHOLD strikes again — SPOTTED last night in ASPEN — B'DAY: Ashley Hickey Marquis — DRIVING THE DAY — BULLETIN — WJLA: “Officials: Amtrak train hits, kills 2 CSX employees on tracks in D.C. …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Brooks's prior attacks on Trump could hurt in Alabama Senate race — (R-Ala.) is locked in the race toward a contentious August primary to fill the Senate seat once held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions — . But Brooks's previous attacks on President Trump could pose a problem …
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Janosch Delcker / Politico:
Merkel to Trump: We provide you jobs — There is 10 times more German direct investment in the US than the other way around, German chancellor said. — BERLIN — Germany creates American jobs, Angela Merkel said Tuesday, in response to criticism from the White House over Germany exporting significantly more than it imports.
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The media will do anything to bash Trump — and now they're hurting — MORE FROM: … It was many years ago, but the memory lingers of the first time I was embarrassed to be a journalist. It was a steamy summer afternoon and reporters and photographers were shoehorned into a small Manhattan apartment …
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James Delingpole / Breitbart:
CNN Just Got Hit by a Massive Truth Bomb-The Facts of Life Are Conservative — And there you have it, a CNN producer, caught on camera, frankly admitting that “fake news” isn't some regrettable accident of the 24-hour news cycle. — “Fake news” is CNN's entire business model.
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