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Long-awaited legislation to dismantle Obamacare was unwrapped on Monday by U.S. Republicans, who called for ending health insurance mandates and rolling back extra healthcare funding for the poor in a package that drew immediate fire from Democrats. In a battle waged since the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, Democratic President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, Republicans including President Donald Trump have long vowed to repeal and replace the law.
Politics, it is said, makes curious bedfellows, and the longstanding relationship between Barack Obama and presidential adviser and confidante Valerie Jarrett is curious indeed. It had become curiouser and curiouser with the news that Jarrett is moving into Obama's D.C. home, which is to serve as the nerve center to the resistance to the presidency of Donald Trump.
In what has already been a historically bad year for Democrats, it just may be that they're about to lose again to Donald Trump, this time in a high-stakes game of Russian roulette. The Dems' Putin smear was supposed to paint President Trump as a friend of the tyrant and beneficiary of Russian meddling in the election.
Former U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton plans to jump into the 2018 governor's race Tuesday, bringing a solid track record of election wins and fundraising that could position her as the initial Democratic front-runner.
Former Obama administration spokesman Josh Earnest is scheduled to participate in a Harvard University forum about interactions between the White House and the media. Earnest was White House press secretary under Democratic President Barack Obama from 2014 until Republican President Donald Trump took office in January.
FBI Director James Comey is set to visit Massachusetts to mark the opening of the Boston FBI division 's new offices and to speak at a cybersecurity conference amid wiretapping accusations lodged by Republican President Donald Trump . Trump claims Democratic former President Barack Obama tapped his phones during last year's election.
Former U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton planned to jump into the 2018 governor's race Tuesday, bringing a solid track record of election wins and fundraising that could position her as the initial Democratic front-runner. The 53-year-old lawyer from Barberton served three terms in Congress and eight years in the state Legislature, where she was the youngest woman ever elected at age 29. She also served on her local city and county councils.
Looks like Barack Obama isn't letting something like a little wiretapping accusation stand in his way of being the coolest ever. Obama brought his new favorite pastime, reminding Americans what they're missing , to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
The day Donald Trump took office, I wrote a column arguing that what was new and frightening here was that he had no reverence for the civic and governmental institutions of this country. This had never been true of a president before, at least in the modern era.
President Donald Trump is again citing corporate investments planned before he took office as evidence that his policies are growing jobs and business. "We are already winning again, America!" he tweeted Monday after Exxon Mobil announced the latest details of an expansion initiative that actually began in 2013.
Republicans in the House of Representatives announced their alternative to Barack Obama's signature Affordable Care Act a.k.a. Obamacare today, while promising that it would repeal much of the provisions of the Obamacare healthcare law, including its expansion of the Medicaid program. President Trump and fellow Republicans had repeatedly promised to repeal and replace the troubled healthcare law left behind by Obama.
Arkansas would move about 60,000 people off its hybrid Medicaid expansion and require some participants to work under a series of restrictions the governor proposed Monday, even as the future of the federal health overhaul remains murky. Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he'll ask the federal government to approve the new restrictions by June and hopes to implement them by 2018.
A career in journalism and advocacy that spans half a century has not only equipped 82-year-old feminist icon Gloria Steinem with a trove of accomplishments and wisdom, but also with a disarming sense of humor. Despite the seriousness of her decades-long fight for women's rights and gender equality, Steinem drew outbursts of laughter and applause from the some 400 people gathered Monday morning at the Mission's Brava Theater.
President Donald Trump's explosive claim that Barack Obama tapped his telephones during last year's election has been defended by White House officials. However, they did not say exactly where that information came from and left open the possibility that it is not true.
Before stepping down as the U.S. ambassador to the country in January, he said he would stay long enough for his daughters to finish the school year. On Sunday, he announced he would be sticking around even longer to join the Institute for National Security Studies, a top think tank in Tel Aviv.
It is well established that U.S. intelligence agencies have been investigating the connections between Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Trump's associates and the Russian government. But in a series of early morning tweets March 4, Trump claimed that President Barack Obama ordered telephone surveillance on him during the election.
President Donald Trump does not accept the Federal Bureau of Investigation's denial that Trump Tower was wiretapped, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday. "I don't think he does," Huckabee Sanders said, adding that a number of media outlets pointed out the possibility that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
This weekend, Donald Trump made headlines again when he made a scandalous accusation against Barack Obama. According to a tweet sent out by Trump, Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the election, before Trump was declared the winner on election day.
White House officials on Monday defended President Donald Trump's explosive claim that Barack Obama tapped Trump's telephones during last year's election , although they won't say where that information came from and left open the possibility that it isn't true. In televised interviews, Kellyanne Conway and Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump firmly believes the allegations he made on Twitter over the weekend.