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10:40 PM ET, September 29, 2017

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Washington Post:
Lost weekend: How Trump's time at his golf club hurt the response to Maria … At first, the Trump administration seemed to be doing all the right things to respond to the disaster in Puerto Rico.  —  As Hurricane Maria made landfall that Wednesday, there was a frenzy of activity publicly and privately.
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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.”
Washington Post:
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,” …
Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian:   San Juan mayor's harrowing plea: ‘Mr Trump, I am begging. We are dying here’
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
General who handled Katrina response blasts Trump on Puerto Rico
Discussion: Politico, IJR and Bloomberg
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
San Juan mayor: ‘I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying’
Discussion: Mother Jones and Mediaite
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Kelly struggling to make sense of Kushner's West Wing role  —  As Secretary of Homeland Security, Gen. John Kelly spent months touting a hard line on immigration.  He argued publicly and privately with Congress that if there were objections to the laws, it was up to legislators to change them …
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and Raw Story
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CBS News:
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.
Discussion: CBS Denver and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Officials Expressed Concerns White House Counsel Would Quit Over Donald Trump-Jared Kushner Meetings  —  Don McGahn was frustrated the parleys could be construed by investigators in the Russia probe as an effort to coordinate stories  —  WASHINGTON—White House Counsel Don McGahn this summer …
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Meyer / Politico:
NSA warned White House against using personal email  —  The National Security Agency warned senior White House officials in classified briefings that improper use of personal cellphones and email could make them vulnerable to espionage by Russia, China, Iran and other adversaries, according to officials familiar with the briefings.
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House hits reset in search for Homeland Security chief: Sources
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
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.
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump's breaking point with Price  —  Tom Price's downfall was his penchant for pricey jets.  —  But his demise was months in the making, as the president continued to lose trust in the Health and Human Services secretary who rarely attended Oval Office strategy meetings …
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Washington Post:
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.
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Trump asked Price to resign as Health and Human Services secretary: Source  —  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.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Interior Secretary Zinke: Scrutiny Of My Private Plane Travel ‘A Little BS’
Adriel Bettelheim / Politico:
Price resigns from HHS after facing fire for travel
Discussion: Axios, FiveThirtyEight and Raw Story
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 Hill:   Analysis: Tax plan would cost $2.4T, benefit wealthy most
ddhq.io:
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.
Discussion: TheBlaze, Daily Kos and Politicus USA
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The Cook Political Report:
Why Virginia's Delegate Races Could Be the Most Telling 2017 Elections
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.
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue:
“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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Axios:
USAFA superintendent: “Grab your phones”
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 …
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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Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
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Isaac Arnsdorf / ProPublica:
Robert Mueller Subpoenas an Associate of the Man Who Hired Michael Flynn as a Lobbyist
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
Tennessee Church Suspect May Have Sought Charleston Revenge
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
Robert Mueller Is Facing His Biggest Question Yet: Should He Prosecute the Cover-Up Before He's Certain There's a Crime?
Discussion: NewsBusters
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Chuck Schumer Describes Immigration Negotiations at WH: Trump Said 'OK, We Won't Do The Wall'
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Right-to-Lifers Look for a New Hostage for Their Demands
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Monthly
Steven L. Hall / Washington Post:
Russian intelligence would have seen Paul Manafort as the perfect mark
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
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