FOR A textbook demonstration of how campaign contributions can buy policy, one need look no further than Louisiana’s nursing homes. No interest group showers more money on the Bayou State’s politicians than nursing homes and their owners. Indeed, the last two governors together collected over $1m in donations from nursing ho...
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Senate GOP Obamacare repeal collapses….
NBC's Kasie Hunt joins from Capitol Hill and Kristen Welker at the White House to report on the news of the health care bill failure.
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Trump on G.O.P.’s Failed Health Care Bill
The president spoke today about the collapse of the Republicans’ plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
McConnell plots repeal “early next week” but lacks votes
After Senate Republicans failed to gather enough votes to pass their second attempt at health care reform, Democrats and Republicans addressed the press
Moderate Republicans, Dems huddle on healthcare
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has poured cold water on the idea of working with Democrats to fix ObamaCare.
Failure to launch… again
Credit: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Senate Republicans are finding new and creative ways to fail this week. They couldn’t find enough votes to move forward with Trumpcare, so they shifted strategies, from “repeal and replace” to “repeal and delay” — and failed again. Democrats can’t take all the credit for the stalled effort — an organized resistance played a large part in getting Republicans to defect too...
5 Trump tweets about taking responsibility for failure that are very awkward now
With Trumpcare in ruins, Trump blames everybody but himself.CREDIT: Fox News screengrab
As Republicans’ latest attempt to repeal and/or replace Obamacare went down in flames on Tuesday, President Trump tried to shift blame to everybody but himself.
During remarks to reporters, Trump falsely claimed his plan all along has been to “let Obamacare fail”—he in fact publicly supported simultaneous repe...
‘Let Obamacare fail’: Donald Trump lays out healthcare plan – video
Donald Trump says he is ‘disappointed’ by his party’s failure to agree on legislation that would have repealed and replaced Barack Obama’s signature healthcare act. Speaking to reporters after support for his bill fell apart, the US president said his administration was ‘in the position where we’ll let Obamacare fail’
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Trump now wants to gamble his presidency and his party on the strength of his salesmanship
Polling shows that Republicans would bear the blame for an Obamacare collapse.