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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump blindsided by implosion of GOP health care bill — President Donald Trump convened a strategy session over steak and succotash at the White House with senators Monday night, trying to plot an uphill path to repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a GOP alternative.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
GOP health care bill collapses — President Donald Trump's top legislative priority was dealt a potentially fatal blow Monday night as two more Republican senators announced their opposition to the party's health care overhaul. — Trump quickly called on Republicans to simply repeal Obamacare …
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Health Care Overhaul Collapses as Two Republican Senators Defect — WASHINGTON — Two more Republican senators declared on Monday night that they would oppose the Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, killing, for now, a seven-year-old promise to overturn President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump blames Dems, ‘a few Republicans’ for collapse of healthcare bill
Trump blames Dems, ‘a few Republicans’ for collapse of healthcare bill
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
After O'Care Plan Falters, McConnell Says He'll Push For Vote On Repeal Only
After O'Care Plan Falters, McConnell Says He'll Push For Vote On Repeal Only
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United States Senator Mike Lee:
Sen. Mike Lee to Vote No on Senate Health Bill
Sen. Mike Lee to Vote No on Senate Health Bill
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Media Matters for America:
Fox host: Republicans who spoke out against Senate health care bill are “maybe not true to their country”
Fox host: Republicans who spoke out against Senate health care bill are “maybe not true to their country”
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Abandons Health-Care Bill
GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Abandons Health-Care Bill
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: After Senate bill falls apart, Republicans don't have the votes to repeal Obamacare
The Daily 202: After Senate bill falls apart, Republicans don't have the votes to repeal Obamacare
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The BCRA is dead, but Obamacare repeal is still alive
The BCRA is dead, but Obamacare repeal is still alive
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Two more GOP senators defect on healthcare bill
Two more GOP senators defect on healthcare bill
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Old Truth Trips Up G.O.P. on Health Law: A Benefit Is Hard to Retract
Old Truth Trips Up G.O.P. on Health Law: A Benefit Is Hard to Retract
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Wall Street Journal:
The Trumps and the Truth — The best defense against future revelations is radical transparency. — Even Donald Trump might agree that a major reason he won the 2016 election is because voters couldn't abide Hillary Clinton's legacy of scandal, deception and stonewalling.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House GOP unveils budget plan that attaches major spending cuts to coming tax overhaul bill — House Republicans unveiled a 2018 budget plan Tuesday that would pave the way for ambitious tax reform legislation — but only alongside a package of politically sensitive spending cuts that threaten …
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Republicans Aren't Turning on Trump—They're Turning on Each Other — The House is mad at the Senate. The Senate is mad at the House. Various factions in the House and Senate are mad at each other or mad at their leaders. — Republican lawmakers have yet to turn on President Trump in any meaningful way.
Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump the foul-mouthed germophobe fired Chris Christie because New Jersey governor arranged for Obama to call his phone NOT The Donald's on election night — A new book reveals how Trump fell out with his then transition boss Chris Christie over whose cellphone to use on election night
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Axios:
Go inside Trumpworld with “Devil's Bargain” book — First look at a hot passage from a book out today by Josh Green of Bloomberg Businessweek, “Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency”: … “Early on, many indicated support for thirdparty candidate Gary Johnson.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump Just Came Very Close to Killing the Iran Deal — At the last minute, the president nearly told Tillerson not to certify Iranian compliance. — Under President Barack Obama this kind of thing was routine. Since the Iran nuclear deal was reached in 2015, every few months …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Recertifies Iran Nuclear Deal, but Only Reluctantly — WASHINGTON — President Trump agreed on Monday to certify again that Iran is complying with an international nuclear agreement that he has strongly criticized, but only after hours of arguing with his top national security advisers …
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Campaign Conceded in a Memo That Comey Was Having Major Impact … Donald Trump's presidential campaign acknowledged in an internal memo that former FBI Director James Comey's 11th hour decision to reopen an inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of private email helped shift the results.
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
The Master of ‘Kompromat’ Believed to Be Behind Trump Jr.'s Meeting — MOSCOW — The salacious video, of a naked man in bed with two women, was one of the most prominent examples of “kompromat,” the Russian art of spreading damaging information to discredit a rival or an enemy, in recent Russian history.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
As Party Drifts Left, Pragmatic Democratic Governors Have Eye on White House — PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Many elected Democrats have drifted left since the party's shattering defeat last November, turning to a brand of progressive politics that is closer to Senator Bernie Sanders's democratic socialism …
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Dem donors buzzing about Kamala Harris
NBC News:
NBC News Poll: American Fears of War Grow — An overwhelming majority of Americans — 76 percent — are worried that the United States will become engaged in a major war in the next four years, according to a new NBC News| SurveyMonkey National Security Poll out Tuesday.
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Finally, a Poll Trump Will Like: Clinton Is Even More Unpopular — Views on Democratic nominee harden since exit from spotlight — Obama now as popular as he was in first year in White House — For a president with historically low poll numbers, Donald Trump can at least find solace in this: Hillary Clinton is doing worse.
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Michael Rothfeld / Wall Street Journal:
New York Seeks Bank Records of Former Trump Associate Paul Manafort — Loans issued by a bank run by former campaign adviser Steve Calk are focus of subpoena — New York prosecutors have demanded records relating to up to $16 million in loans that a bank run by a former campaign adviser …
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
Coast Guard wants to kick boats off Potomac River when president is golfing — The Trump family has offended many sectors of establishment Washington since their arrival in the nation's capital, from Langley's spymasters to mansion-dwellers in the District's Kalorama neighborhood.
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Is the presidency good for Trump's business? Not necessarily at this golf course.
Pamela Brown / CNN:
Trump Jr. attorney offers details about 8th person at meeting — Trump shifts focus from Russia investigation — (CNN)Donald Trump Jr.'s attorney, Alan Futerfas, has told CNN he has spoken by phone to the eighth person in the room during the meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016.
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Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:
Who was the 8th person in Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russians?
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Steven Mnuchin, Trump's treasury secretary, is hurtling toward his first fiasco — Shortly before he was sworn in as treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin spoke with his predecessor to get some advice. — Pay attention to the debt problems in Puerto Rico, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned Mnuchin …
Ben Strauss / Politico:
Is the President Fit? — Few props have been more indispensable to Donald Trump's presidency than the golf cart. He drives them on his frequent weekend trips to the links (invariably at Trump-owned clubs, where he rolls onto the greens, too—normally a no-no).