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Leading Republicans are brushing off unfavorable aspects of a Congressional Budget Office report Monday on their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, arguing the nonpartisan CBO is unreliable and only taking a portion of their plan under consideration. If anxious members were hoping the CBO score might temper Republican leadership's plans to push the bill forward, they'd be wrong.
Former President Barack Obama visited downtown San Jose Monday, marking perhaps his first return to Silicon Valley as a private citizen. A crowd of about 100 watched, snapped photos and shot videos.
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan are pushing legislation that would repeal key aspects of the Affordable Care Act. Changing the heath insurance marketplace under Obamacare is complicated business, and there is no universal agreement on how any legislation would affect coverage.
In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, Seema Verma, left, nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, gets on an elevator in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Verma was confirmed by the Senate on March 13. less FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, Seema Verma, left, nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, gets on an elevator in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York.
In this April 1, 2011 file photo, Keith Hall testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Congressional Budget Office is a scorekeeper suddenly in the spotlight.
President Donald Trump tweeted a critique of the media for being "rude to my very hard-working representatives" on Monday, only minutes after counselor Kellyanne Conway completed a series of interviews on television morning shows. Conway's interviews, including one that appeared to signal a thaw in the administration's relationship with CNN, were at times combative, exasperating and fascinating - an illustration of how the administration and reporters are often talking past each other and how she's become something of a cult figure.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday that he felt "encouraged" by the Congressional Budget Office's findings on his party's proposed health-care legislation. "I'm pretty encouraged," he told reporters .
Some Senate Republican responded to the release of a Congressional Budget Office report Monday -- which found that up to 24 million more Americans would be without health insurance within 10 years under a Republican health care plan --- by saying that they expect the House proposal to be changed in the Senate. "The bill's likely to change in the House and again in the Senate," said Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of the Senate Republican leadership, after the CBO report was released.
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's office says Congress' nonpartisan analysis of the House Republican health care bill confirms that the elderly, disabled and those in addiction treatment will be worse off. Wolf on Monday renewed his call for Pennsylvania's delegation to reject the bill and fix former President Barack Obama's health care law.
U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez is leading a sit-in at a federal immigration office in Chicago, saying he and other activists won't leave until demands are met. Among other things, the Illinois Democrat is asking immigration officials not to conduct raids and reverse a years-old deportation decision on a Mexican immigrant in the country without legal permission.
The Senate confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Labor Department has been delayed until later this month. But a spokesman for the panel's chairman, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, says the hearing will now be held on March 22. The spokesman, Taylor Haulsee, cites a scheduling conflict in which Alexander is to appear with Trump at an event in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday to help promote Republicans' plan to repeal and replace Barack Obama's health care law.
The federal prosecutor for northern Indiana has resigned after President Donald Trump sought the dismissals of dozens of U.S. attorneys nationwide who were holdovers from the Obama administration.
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton said GOP members of the House should not "walk the plank" by approving the Republican health care bill, warning that it could cost the party the House majority and put the entire GOP agenda at risk. "I would say to my friends in the House of Representatives with whom I serve, 'Do not walk the plank and vote for a bill that cannot pass the Senate and then have to face the consequences of that vote," Cotton told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos.
When Colorado expanded Medicaid coverage under former President Barack Obama's health care law, the largest provider in the Denver region hired more than 250 employees and built a $27 million primary care clinic and two new school-based clinics. Emergency rooms visits stayed flat as Denver Health Medical Center directed many of the nearly 80,000 newly insured patients into one of its 10 community health centers, where newly hired social workers and mental health therapists provided services for some of the county's poorest residents.
Fifty years ago, give or take a few weeks, subscribers to the quarterly Leftist journal Partisan Review were just settling down with the Winter 1967 edition - accompanied, one imagines, by a nice dry martini and a freshly-opened pack of Chesterfields . That edition of Partisan Review featured a symposium in which sixteen luminaries of the period offered their answers to the question: "What's happening to America?" Among those luminaries was Lefty activist, writer, and lesbian Susan Sontag.
In this Feb. 27, 2017, file photo, budget director Mick Mulvaney speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump unveils a proposed budget on March 16 that will sharply test RepublicansA' ability to keep longstanding promises to beef up the military by making politically painful cuts to a lengthy list of popular domestic programs.
Washington: The Trump administration's belief that it's besieged by a so-called deep state - rogue elements of the bureaucracy bent on undermining it - came under direct challenge on Sunday, when Republican senator John McCain demanded that the President put up or shut up on his claim that Barack Obama had ordered wire taps on Trump Tower.It was further challenged when Preet Bharara, the much-admired US attorney of the southern district of New York, refused to comply with a Trump request that he resign along with 45 other attorneys across the country who had been asked to quit, forcing the White House to sack him.
Here's where things stand heading into Day 53 of the Trump administration: One of the criminal justice system's most powerful and well-respected prosecutors said he was fired by the Trump administration. On Friday, we learned that the Trump Justice Department had told all 46 U.S. attorneys remaining from the Obama administration to submit their resignations as part of the wider government transition.