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Heather Long / Washington Post:
Senate GOP tax bill hurts the poor more than originally thought, CBO finds  —  The Senate Republican tax plan gives substantial tax cuts and benefits to Americans earning more than $100,000 a year, while the nation's poorest would be worse off, according to a report released Sunday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
Consumer bureau's top lawyer sides with Trump in leadership clash  —  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's top lawyer sided with the Justice Department over President Donald Trump's appointment of Mick Mulvaney to lead the CFPB as a leadership battle over the controversial watchdog agency escalated.
David Dayen / The Intercept:
White House Memo Justifying CFPB Takeover Was Written by Payday Lender Attorney  —  The lawyer who wrote the Office of Legal Counsel memo supporting the Trump administration's viewpoint that the president can appoint Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau represented …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump wants to destroy Elizabeth Warren's brainchild.  In a new interview, Warren hits back.  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  President Trump's perpetual scamming of his working- and middle-class voters takes a new turn Monday, amid a war that has erupted over the fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Discussion: New York Times and CNN
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Leandra English, the woman at the center of a White House battle for control of the CFPB, files lawsuit against Trump pick to lead watchdog agency  —  The tug-of-war over leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau intensified Sunday as a high-ranking agency official sued …
Bernie Becker / Politico:
Tax reform hangs in balance in critical week for GOP
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Axios
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
GOP leaders in advanced talks to change tax plan in bid to win over holdouts
Allie Malloy / CNN:
Cordray's successor sues Trump administration over Mulvaney's appointment to CFPB
Discussion: Axios and Daily Kos
CBO's Publications:
Reconciliation Recommendations of the Senate Committee on Finance
Discussion: Washington Times
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. consumer finance agency lawyer sides with Trump over succession - sources
Discussion: Washington Post
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Al Franken on whether he will face more groping allegations: 'I don't know.  I can't say.'  —  Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) spoke to a handful of Minnesota media outlets on Sunday in response to the four allegations of sexual misconduct against him, saying he is “embarrassed and ashamed” …
Discussion: Townhall.com, mprnews.org and NPR
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Al Franken on Whether He's Ever Groped a Woman's Butt: 'I Can't Say I Haven't' Done That'
Kirby Wilson / Tampa Bay Times:   Marco Rubio: Al Franken ‘should consider resigning’
Jennifer Brooks / Star Tribune:
‘Ashamed’ Franken says he'll return to work on Monday
David Usborne / Esquire:
THE LAST DETAIL  —  When Donald Trump won the presidency, many Americans hoped John McCain would live up to his maverick image and resist his agenda.  But after the senator was diagnosed with brain cancer in July, his contrarian resolve revealed itself in unexpected ways that may shape his legacy—and our future.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
McCain: Trump doesn't have any ‘principles and beliefs’
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
“She Didn't Want This Come Hell or High Water”: Inside Melania Trump's Secretive East Wing  —  Understanding the most enigmatic First Lady—and unusual marriage—in modern political history.  —  I. “NOT MY THING”  —  Back in 2014, when Donald Trump was considering yet again a run for president …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Bharara compares Trump to Jan Brady after Russia tweet  —  For U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara invoked the classic sitcom “The Brady Bunch” after President Trump lamented coverage of the Russia investigation, comparing Trump's “Russia, Russia, Russia” comment to Jan Brady's famous “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” line.
Sen. Rand Paul / Fox News:
Here's why I plan to vote for the Senate tax bill (and my colleagues should step up)  —  One of the fundamental problems in Washington is the attitude that the money that people make belongs to the government.  That's why you hear arguments about how much a tax cut “costs,” …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
John Hilliard / BostonGlobe.com:
Tufts postpones Scaramucci event after he threatens to sue student, paper  —  Tufts University postponed a Monday event featuring Anthony Scaramucci, a former Trump White House spokesman, after he threatened to sue a student and the school newspaper for defamation following the publication of an op-ed column criticizing him.
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
CBS boss told me to sleep with coworkers to get ahead: suit  —  It's another black eye for Black Rock.  —  A week after CBS host Charlie Rose was outed as an alleged serial sex harasser, one of the network's former producers says she was told by a boss that she would have to sleep with coworkers to get anywhere in the company.
Discussion: Mediaite and bizpacreview.com
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
The case for Roy Moore  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  Whence goeth that Yellow Dog?  —  Once upon a time, even a Yellow Dog could get elected in places like Alabama — so long as he was a Democrat.  —  That dog done run off and nowadays a Democrat can't hardly win, even when running against an accused pedophile.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Roy Moore Is Deplorable, and Donald Trump Condoning His Sins Is Unforgivable
Discussion: Raw Story
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie makes moves pointing to 2020 run  —  Bernie Sanders is taking steps to address longstanding political shortcomings that were exposed in 2016, ahead of another possible presidential bid in 2020.  —  From forging closer ties to the labor movement to shoring up his once-flimsy foreign policy credentials …
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Trump's Russian Schizophrenia  —  The United States should send arms to Ukraine to help in its “self-defense” against Russian aggression.  It should hold Russia accountable for its illegal “occupation” of territory there, and push for international peacekeepers.
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump White House ethics lawyer exits  —  The ranks of former White House ethics lawyers available to comment on the ongoing controversies engulfing President Donald Trump's administration has just grown by one — an attorney who's certain to offer a much different perspective …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Ariel Zilber / Reuters:
FBI receives single day record of over 200,000 requests for gun background checks on Black Friday …
Amanda Michelle Gomez / ThinkProgress:
Training the next generation of abortion doctors
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Wang Dan / New York Times:
Beijing Hinders Free Speech in America
Bloomberg:
Tax-Hike Fears Trigger Talk of Exodus From Manhattan and Greenwich
New York Times:
In Tax Debate, Gift to Religious Right Could Be Bargaining Chip
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's role in Middle Eastern nuclear project could compound legal issues
Discussion: Arutz Sheva
Associated Press:
FBI gave heads-up to fraction of Russian hackers' US targets
Nicole Russell / Washington Examiner:
For the love of God, why can't Democrats leave the Little Sisters of the Poor alone?
Katie J.M. Baker / BuzzFeed:
More Than 180 Women Have Reported Sexual Assaults at Massage Envy
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NBC News:
Archbishop of Canterbury baffled by Christians who back Trump
Discussion: ITV and Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's long history of misleading the media
Discussion: Political Wire
 

 
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