Trump may not sign tax bill until January 3

December 21, 2017 News

Rachel Maddow shares a Bloomberg report that because of Republicans' rush to pass their tax bill without due consideration for its implementation, Donald Trump may have to wait to sign it to avoid triggering automatic Medicare cuts.
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WATCH: Trump touts tax benefits for businesses

December 21, 2017 News, WNT

The president urged Republicans to downplay the repeal of certain elements of Obamacare before the tax bill vote.

Fact Check: Trump Falsely Claims to Have ‘Repealed Obamacare’

December 20, 2017December 21, 2017 Congressional Budget Office, Fact Check, Health Insurance and Managed Care, medicaid, News, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), United States Politics and Government

The repeal of the individual mandate in the tax bill, despite President Trump’s claim, does not amount to a repeal of the entire health care law.

Chuck: Political hyperbole is causing the world to end

December 20, 2017 News

Between the GOP's tax bill and Obamacare, Chuck breaks down the absurdity of hyperbole in our politics.
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Control of Virginia’s 94th district is now up to chance

December 20, 2017 News, politics

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Donald Trump thinks he just quietly repealed Obamacare

December 20, 2017December 21, 2017 News

In the midst of a long statement to tout the passage of Republicans' massive tax cut bill, President Donald Trump let slip something else he said he had been keeping to himself and trying to keep quiet.

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GOP rushed to pass tax bill, but likely won’t fund Children’s Health Insurance Program until 2018

December 20, 2017 health care, News

On Wednesday, Senate lawmakers reneged on their promise to include funding for children of low-income families in the short-term government funding bill, exacerbating the already dismal situation for the millions of children who rely on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Susan Collins (R-ME) said they do not expect to appropriate long-term funding until next year. It’s been 81 days since Congress missed the original deadline ...

2017: The year when incompetence saved America

December 20, 2017 Donald Trump, News, republican-party, trumpcare

Close your eyes for a few seconds and remember the despair you felt one year ago, while a Trump presidency was still a looming but unavoidable nightmare.

Donald Trump, a man with no empathy and even less grasp of policy nuances, was the president-elect. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), a man who literally fantasized about cutting health benefits for poor people during his college keg parties, had spent the Obama years rallying his fellow Republican lawmakers around a singularly cruel agend...

Trump just admitted the GOP’s tax cuts were deceptively sold

December 20, 2017 News

Trump says the bill was really about corporate tax cuts and repealing Obamacare. He just handed Democrats some talking points for 2018.

Collins backs tax bill, but GOP doesn’t deliver on Obamacare payment bills she was promised

December 20, 2017December 20, 2017 News

Sens. Susan Collins and Lamar Alexander announced Wednesday that they will not push for a controversial health care payment to be included in a short-term spending bill, citing concerns that it could lead to a year-end government funding showdown between the House and Senate.
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