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VA chief took in Wimbledon, river cruise on European work trip; wife's expenses covered — Nearly three days into a trip to Europe this past July, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin had attended a Wimbledon championship tennis match, toured Westminster Abbey and taken a cruise on the Thames.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigns after criticism for taking charter flights at taxpayer expense — Tom Price, President Trump's embattled health and human services secretary, resigned Friday amid sharp criticism of his extensive use of taxpayer-funded charter flights, the White House said.
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Tom Price resigns as Health and Human Services secretary — Tom Price, President Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services, resigned from his post today after it was revealed that he had repeatedly chartered private planes for government travel.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Price's future in serious jeopardy
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Health Secretary Tom Price Resigns After Drawing Ire for Chartered Flights
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Interior Secretary Zinke: Scrutiny Of My Private Plane Travel ‘A Little BS’
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Lauren Fox / CNN:
'I think the President's mad as hell': Hill Republicans fume over Price's travel costs
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: We're going to make a decision on Price's future tonight
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Adriel Bettelheim / Politico:
Price resigns from HHS after facing fire for travel
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump's Deadly Narcissism — According to a new Quinnipiac poll, a majority of Americans believe that Donald Trump is unfit to be president. That's pretty remarkable. But you have to wonder how much higher the number would be if people really knew what's going on.
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San Juan mayor slams Trump administration comments on Puerto Rico hurricane response — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The mayor of Puerto Rico's capital sharply criticized a senior Trump administration official Friday for calling the government's disaster response “a good-news story,” …
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
San Juan mayor: ‘Dammit, this is not a good news story’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz reacted with shock and anger to acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke on Friday, saying Puerto Rico's recovery is “not a good news story.”
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U.S. response in Puerto Rico pales next to actions after Haiti quake … After an earthquake shattered Haiti's capital on Jan. 12, 2010, the U.S. military mobilized as if it were going to war. — Before dawn the next morning, an Army unit was airborne, on its way to seize control of the main airport in Port-au-Prince.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
San Juan mayor hits back at Elaine Duke: ‘This is not a good news story. This is a people are dying story.’
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Oliver Willis / Shareblue:
Trump's Puerto Rico defense: “This is an island surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water.”
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Omaya Sosa Pascual / miamiherald:
Hurricane Maria's death toll in Puerto Rico is higher than official count, experts say
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taxpolicycenter.org:
A Preliminary Analysis of the Unified Framework — ABSTRACT — The Tax Policy Center has produced preliminary estimates of the potential impact proposals included in the “Unified Framework for Fixing our Broken Tax Code.” We find they would reduce federal revenue by $2.4 trillion …
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
GOP tax plan would provide major gains for richest 1%, uneven benefits for the middle class, report says — The Republican tax plan would deliver a major benefit to the top 1 percent of Americans, according to a new analysis by a leading group of nonpartisan tax experts that challenges the White House's portrayal of its effects.
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The numbers are in: Trump's tax plan is a bonanza for the rich, not the middle class
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House hits reset in search for Homeland Security chief: Sources — Two sources familiar with the process have told ABC News the search for Gen. John Kelly's replacement as Department of Homeland Security secretary is currently back at “square one,” 68 days after President Trump announced Kelly …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Kelly struggling to make sense of Jared's West Wing role — Trump has also questioned whether having his family members in the West Wing is creating too much noise. — As Secretary of Homeland Security, Gen. John Kelly spent months touting a hard line on immigration.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
San Juan mayor: ‘I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying’
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Alabama Senate Special Election Poll — Immediately after the runoff Tuesday, we commissioned Opinion Savvy to conduct a poll of the upcoming special U.S. Senate general election in Alabama. Opinion Savvy contacted 590 voters through landline and mobile devices on September 27th and 28th.
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Trump kids' ski vacation incurs over $300,000 in security costs — The annual Aspen ski vacation taken in March by President Trump's children, Ivanka and Eric Trump, and their families, including son-in-law Jared Kushner, left taxpayers on the hook for security costs of at least $330,000, CBS News has learned.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Melania Trump fires back at librarian who rejected gift of Dr. Seuss books as ‘racist’ — First lady Melania Trump fired back Friday at a Massachusetts elementary school librarian who rejected her donation of Dr. Seuss books, claiming their illustrations are examples of “racist propaganda.”
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“You should be outraged.” Lt. Gen. response to racism at Air Force Academy shames Trump — Donald Trump's response to the deadly Charlottesville white supremacist riot in August was appalling. It was so bad, in fact, that Trump essentially abdicated any responsibility of his office to unify the nation in a time of division.
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides Are Confounded by His Hospital Lie: 'He's Just, You Know, Doing His Thing.' … The president of the United States has been repeatedly blaming the biggest legislative failure of his administration on a senator in a made-up hospital, and no one in the White House is quite sure why.
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Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed:
People Are Sharing This Fake Photo Of NFL Players Burning The American Flag — Conservative social media accounts are sharing a photoshopped image that makes it look like an NFL player is burning the US flag while his teammates cheer him on. — The fake picture is being used …
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Allan Smith / Business Insider:
In private dinner, George W. Bush criticizes Trump's decision to add North Korea to travel ban — In a private dinner Thursday night, the former President George W. Bush was critical of President Donald Trump's decision to place added travel restrictions on North Korea as part …
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Right-to-Lifers Look for a New Hostage for Their Demands — Republicans frustrated by their Senate conference's serial failure to repeal and replace Obamacare are beginning to back away from threats to extend the battle right on into the autumn. Lindsey Graham and Ron Johnson …
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Sam Baker / Axios:
Senate panel keeps tax cuts and ACA repeal separate
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Hannity beats Maddow in first week of 9 p.m. showdown — In the first week of the head-to-head battle between Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow, the conservative heavyweight drew significantly higher ratings than his liberal counterpart. — Fox News moved Hannity's show from 10 p.m. to 9 p.m …
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