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" The White House stepped up demands Sunday that the Senate resume efforts to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law, suggesting that lawmakers cancel their entire August recess, if needed, to pass legislation after a stunning series of failed votes last week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has declared that it was "time to move on" from health care, scheduling debate early this week on judicial nominations.
T he Venezuelan crisis has made it clear that the Trump administration has outsourced its South America policy to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio. That's a bad idea, even if you have a positive opinion of the Florida senator.
The White House is insisting that the Senate resume efforts to repeal and replace the nation's health care law, signaling that President Donald Trump stands ready to end required payments to insurers this week to let "Obamacare implode" and force congressional action.
Rep. Ron DeSantis said Monday that taking away insurance subsidies from members of Congress would force lawmakers to act on Obamacare. "Other Americans who are in exchanges are not getting employer subsidies.
Ousted White House press secretary Sean Spicer says he would "proudly" help Vice President Mike Pence if he launches a presidential bid. "When and if @mike_pence runs in 2024 I would proudly play any role he asks Good to know you have already conceded that," Spicer wrote late Sunday in response to Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
CNN host Fareed Zakaria said Monday that President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton because millions of voters are "sick and tired" of being told what to do by the cultural elite, which Zakaria said includes people on TV. "The election of Donald Trump is really a kind of class rebellion against people like us," he said on CNN.
A top income-tax rate of 44 percent for Americans earning more than $5 million per year isn't under consideration, a White House official said Monday, knocking down a proposal said to be backed by top Trump adviser Steve Bannon. "I don't think that that's on the table right now, to be honest with you," White House director of legislative affairs Marc Short said on Fox News.
Speaking in opposition to net neutrality in June 2006, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens related the Internet to a "series of tubes" as an argument in favor of Internet providers prioritizing traffic for some customers. "...They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet.
President Donald Trump has described himself as "a loyalty freak" and told interviewers that it is the trait he cares about most when hiring an employee. "We could use some more loyalty, I will tell you that," he said at the Boy Scout Jamboree last week.
In an apparent attempt to curtail the culture of leaks, Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans this week to hold a press conference in which he will release figures showing an increase in the number of such cases pursued so far this year, compared to all of 2016, Axios reported on Monday. Administration officials have said the reason for the increase in leak cases is due to both more leaking going on, particularly by appointees of former President Barack Obama who remain in government, and because the Justice Department is being increasingly aggressive in going after the violators.
After the collapse of Obamacare repeal, Republicans may have to choose between pursuing another health bill or pushing through a tax overhaul this year, because there's almost certainly not enough time to do both. And that's not even their biggest problem -- which is, they can't agree on either.
John McCain surprised and disappointed lots of Republicans this past week when he voted against the "Skinny Bill" which would have allowed for a repeal of Obamacare. It turns out he got a phone call and some encouragement for his vote from former Vice President Joe Biden.
In this Tuesday, July 25, 2017, photo, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine is surrounded by reporters as she arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a test vote on the Republican health care bill. Collins, who was one of three Republican senators voting against the GOP health bill on Friday, July 28, said she's troubled by Trump's suggestions that the insurance payments are a "bailout."
U.S. President Donald Trump has not answered a single question from non-friendly media about his party's health care plan. He seems fond of tweeting about the topic to publicly scold Republicans, but it's not clear if Trump knows or understands any of the nuances of health care policy.
When the tweeter-in-chief castigated Senate Republicans as "total quitters" for failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, he couldn't have been more wrong. In fact, they showed zombie-like relentlessness in their determination to take health care away from millions of Americans, shambling forward despite devastating analyses by the Congressional Budget Office, denunciations of their plans by every major medical group, and overwhelming public disapproval.
After a chaotic week for President Donald Trump and his party, Republicans are facing a fundamental question: What's next? With a new chief of staff, communications director and press secretary in tow, the President clearly is seeking to "hit the reset button," as his now former chief of staff Reince Priebus said Friday. Also clamoring to turn the page, GOP leaders on both sides of Capitol Hill are clearly signaling they are ready to turn to a slew of issues and agenda items this fall, like taxes, border security, the budget, spending bills, and more -- and even Trump administration officials are echoing that call.
An anonymous reader quotes Diginomica: A fresh initiative aimed at information sharing about election threats and dubbed Defending Digital Democracy has the financial support of Facebook and the academic muscle of Harvard behind it. Will the project succeed where similar initiatives have failed...? On 19 July and backed by a $500,000 initial grant from Facebook, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School launched a new, bipartisan initiative called the Defending Digital Democracy Project .