memeorandum: Republicans are desperately hoping they can find unity over tax cuts (Tara Golshan/Vox)

6:35 PM ET, September 27, 2017

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Mike Allen / Axios:

Trump, at war with everyone, mocks McCain, McConnell — In private, President Trump has taken to physically mocking M&M: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (slumped shoulders; lethargic body language) and Sen. John McCain (imitating the thumbs-down of his historic health-care vote).

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CNN:

Trump infuriated after backing Alabama loser — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Returning from a high-dollar fundraiser in Manhattan on Tuesday evening, an infuriated President Donald Trump watched aboard Air Force One as Fox News called the Alabama Senate primary for Roy Moore against Trump's favored candidate, Luther Strange.

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Trump just endorsed a lawless bigot in Alabama. Here's how Democrats will run against him. — THE MORNING PLUM: — Roy Moore, the new GOP nominee for Senate in Alabama, defied a court order directing him to remove a tablet bearing the Ten Commandments from a state court building.

New York Times:

Roy Moore's Alabama Victory Sets Off Talk of a G.O.P. Insurrection — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Republicans are confronting an insurrection on the right that is angry enough to imperil their grip on Congress, and senior party strategists have concluded that the conservative base now loathes …

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Meghan McCain rips report Trump is physically mocking her father — 's (R-Ariz.) daughter Meghan McCain lashed out on Wednesday over a report that President Trump has been “physically mocking” her father behind closed doors, calling it “abhorrent.” — “What more must my family be put through right now?

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Russell Goldman / New York Times:
Trump Deletes Tweets Supporting Luther Strange

Jordan Gehrke:
Alabama Senate Memo: Return of the Civil War and the Fall of Mitch McConnell

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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
How Roy Moore's Win Roils Republicans

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Alex Conant / FIREHOUSE Strategies:
BREAKING: New data on NFL & health care

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Mike Allen / Axios:
Mitch McConnell's epic losing streak

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Josh Barro / Business Insider:

The ‘doubled standard deduction’ in the GOP tax plan is a lie — In selling their soon-to-be-released tax plan, Republicans have been leaning hard on what they say is a provision to cut and simplify taxes for the middle class: doubling the standard deduction that people who pay income tax may take.

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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:

Trump's new tax plan shows how unserious Republicans are about governing — “I will give you everything,” Donald Trump promised as a presidential candidate, and as president, not only has he continued to make that promise, but also the entire Republican Party has followed suit.

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Here's the GOP tax plan — Here's a summary of the plan that's being released today, obtained by Axios from outside sources. More details to come.

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Washington Post:
GOP tax document reveals plan for massive tax cuts, preserves key deductions

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New York Times:
Trump Proposes the Most Sweeping Tax Overhaul in Decades

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Tara Golshan / Vox:
Republicans are desperately hoping they can find unity over tax cuts

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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer: Trump tax plan ‘wealth-fare’

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Ashley Feinberg / Wired:

Jared Kushner Voted As a Woman, According to His Registration — SINCE MOVING INTO the White House months ago, Jared Kushner—senior advisor and son-in-law to the President, savior of the Middle East, and possible person of interest in a federal investigation—has amassed a rather extensive project portfolio.

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Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:

Kushner registered to vote in New York as a female — Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is registered as a female voter in New York, according to public records. — Registration records show that when Kushner, who is married to first daughter Ivanka Ivanka …

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The Daily Beast:

Exclusive: Russians Impersonated Real American Muslims to Stir Chaos on Facebook and Instagram … The Facebook group United Muslims of America was neither united, Muslim, nor American. — Instead, sources familiar with the group tell The Daily Beast, it was an imposter account …

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Wall Street Journal:

Lawmakers Seek Waiver of Law Barring Foreign Ships From Delivering Aid to Puerto Rico — The Jones Act has been waived following past natural disasters — WASHINGTON—Lawmakers are calling on the Trump administration to permit foreign-flagged vessels to ship relief supplies from U.S. ports …

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Wall Street Journal:
Second-Class Puerto Rico

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Brian Resnick / Vox:
What every American needs to know about Puerto Rico's hurricane disaster

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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
All about the Jones Act, an obscure shipping law that's stalling Puerto Rico's recovery

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The Jones Act, the obscure 1920 shipping regulation strangling Puerto Rico, explained

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Dylan Scott / Vox:

Trump administration abruptly drops out of Obamacare events in Mississippi — “It's clearly sabotage.” — For the past three years, the US Health and Human Services Department has partnered with a health advocacy group in Mississippi on an education tour before Obamacare enrollment started.

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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump fuming over Price's charter flights

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BuzzFeed: The Trump Administration Is Pulling Out Of Obamacare Enrollment Events

CNN:
Trump on firing Price for taxpayer-funded private jet use: 'We'll see'

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:

Exclusive: Russian-bought Black Lives Matter ad on Facebook targeted Baltimore and Ferguson — At least one of the Facebook ads bought by Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign referenced Black Lives Matter and was specifically targeted to reach audiences in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore …

Dialynn Dwyer / Boston Globe:

Michelle Obama: ‘Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice’ — Former First Lady Michelle Obama criticized women who voted for President Donald Trump during a wide-ranging conversation in Boston Wednesday that addressed life in the White House, her forthcoming book …

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Courier-Journal:

Rick Pitino ‘effectively fired,’ on unpaid leave amid Louisville FBI basketball investigation — University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino has been put on unpaid administrative leave after the FBI alleged in a criminal complaint that coaches with the program participated in a scheme to pay recruits' families.

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Ivy League / ESPN:
Louisville's Rick Pitino and Tom Jurich placed on administrative leave

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Burgess Everett / Politico:

Corker: ‘Possible’ that Peyton Manning runs for Senate — It's “possible” but not necessarily likely that former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning will run for Tennessee's open U.S. Senate seat, retiring Sen. Bob Corker said Wednesday. — The outgoing GOP senator said he spoke with Manning …

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Mark Harris / Wired:

God Is a Bot, and Anthony Levandowski Is His Messenger — Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the Singularity—the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans in intelligence and kick off a feedback loop of unfathomable change. — When that day comes, Anthony Levandowski will be firmly on the side of the machines.

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Manu Raju / CNN:

Key senators prepare subpoena for Manafort to appear at hearing — Manafort's journey to center of Mueller investigation — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Senate judiciary committee leaders have reached a deal to issue a subpoena to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort compelling …

Gabby Morrongiello / Washington Examiner:

Trump preparing executive order to let Americans purchase health insurance across state lines — President Trump is preparing an executive order to allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines, a reform conservatives have long championed as a way to bring costs …

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Clarice Silber / Associated Press:

Famous fake news writer found dead outside Phoenix — https://apnews.com/dc0728173537459b9a1e 38009dd5c4b5 — Link copied! — PHOENIX (AP) — A leading purveyor of fake news in the 2016 presidential election has died outside Phoenix at the age of 38. — Maricopa County Sheriff's …

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New York Times:

‘Soon,’ ‘Very Soon,’ ‘Eventually’: A Detailed List of Things Trump Said Would Happen — President Trump regularly says that his policy goals - an Obamacare repeal, an infrastructure bill, an overhaul of the tax code, a border wall, among others - will happen “soon,” “very soon,” “very …

Rebecca Traister / thecut:

Elizabeth Warren Is Getting Hillary-ed — The elite, ambitious candidate, saying one thing on the stump but another to wealthy donors, willing to cede big dreams for incremental, pragmatic fixes ... You recognize her, right? Of course you do. She's Massachusetts Senator …

Jemele Hill / The Undefeated:

Jemele Hill on doing the right thing — A lesson from her grandmother: Be better. No matter what. — I don't remember exactly how old I was, but let's just say I was 11. — I was spending the night at my grandmother's house with a couple of my close friends. And they had an idea.

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