Month: July 2017
The Resistance Now: this is the sound of ‘repeal and replace’ collapsing
John McCain may have grabbed the headlines but others were quick to point out the steady pushback from fellow senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins
This is the joyous sound of the biggest win of the resistance movement since Donald Trump took office. Crowds outside the US Capitol erupted in the early hours Friday when they got word that Republicans’ seven-year dream to repeal the Affordable Care Act had finally gone up in flames. Listen:
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Trump threatens to end ObamaCare payments unless repeal passes
President Trump on Saturday threatened to end key payments to insurance companies made under Obamacare if a repeal and replace bill is not passed."After seven years of 'talking' Repeal & Replace, the people of...
These 5 House Republicans are ripping their Senate colleagues over healthcare
Republican efforts to fulfill a seven year campaign promise to repeal and replace ObamaCare failed in the Senate early hours of Friday...
Trump erupts at GOP senators: ‘They look like fools’
A day after Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare collapsed, Trump wrote they “look like fools” and went after the filibuster, which had nothing to do with the vote.
Republicans’ failure to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare may cost them at the ballot box
Conservatives are angry — and Democrats are cutting the attack ads.
Coast Guard spends more to protect Trump at Mar-a-Lago than the military spends on trans health…
Coast Guard spends more to protect Trump at Mar-a-Lago than the military spends on trans health careTrump is on track to spend more money on travel in 2017 than Obama spent in eight years combined.President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Raleigh County Memorial Airport, in Beaver, W.Va., Monday, July 24, 2017, en route to the 2017 National Scout Jamboree in Glen Jean, W.Va.. CREDIT: AP Photo/C...
House Republican blames Trump for healthcare failure: He ‘never laid out a plan’
Some members of President Trump's own party are laying the blame on the White House for allowing the GOP effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare to fail.Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), chairman of the moderate Tuesday Gr...
After health care failure, Trump slams GOP senators as ‘fools’ who are ‘wasting time’
The president is calling for changes to Senate rules that reveal he doesn’t totally understand how the Senate works.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump. CREDIT: AP PhotoIn a rambling series of tweets posted Saturday morning, President Donald Trump attacked GOP senators for allowing their Democratic colleagues to “totally control the U.S. Senate,” saying they “look like f...