President says he would veto senator’s Medicare for All single-payer plan, prompting quick rebuke from Sanders
Donald Trump on Thursday called Bernie Sanders’ universal healthcare plan a “curse on the US & its people” and promised to veto it if it ever landed on his desk.
Related: Bernie Sanders unveils universal healthcare bill: 'We will win this struggle'
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Trump doesn’t actually think single-payer is a horrible idea
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed the only health care plan that would fulfill all the health care promises made by President Trump—but White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed the single-payer health care plan Wednesday, saying Trump thinks it would be a horrible idea.
“I think that the president as well as the majority of the country knows that the single payer system that the Democrats are proposing is a horrible idea,” Huckabee Sanders told reporters. “I ...
Memo to the New York Times: Donald Trump is a Republican
The North American Republican is a wily creature. Territorial. Obsessed with tax cuts. And, like the coral snake, difficult for some people to distinguish from its less venomous cousins.
Crikey! That’s quite a blunder by the Grey Lady. And it’s not a blunder limited to ju...
‘I cannot believe the Republicans are extending the debt ceiling’: Trump’s awkward tweets
During a meeting with congressional leaders at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump struck a deal to provide aid to victims of Hurricane Harvey, raise the debt ceiling, and keep the government funded — with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
Not only did Trump strike a deal with the leaders of a party he’s repeatedly decried as mere “obstructionists,” but in talking about the deal with reporters on Air Force One, the president didn...
DACA is not unconstitutional
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows approximately 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to live and work openly without fear of deportation. The White House also plans to delay the end of DACA for six months.
In a telling sign of how the administration wants to justify this decision, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced DACA’s fate at a new...
Men of sleet: The snowflakes behind Trump’s macho-man act
The fuel in President Donald Trump’s rise to power has many ingredients, but they are all funneled through the same engine: TV and internet chatter.
The racism, xenophobia, and lizard-brain tribalism Trump tapped into over the past two-plus years of campaigning and slipshod attempts at governing find a natural intersection online — where anonymous message board flamewars have reshaped human conversational norms — and on cable TV debate shows. In either venue, what ...
Trump slashes funds for ACA advertising, undermines Obamacare at every turn
The Trump administration is dramatically cutting funding dedicated to advertising and promoting enrollment in Obamacare. The cuts are further evidence that the Trump administration will undermine its least favorite health care law at all costs, despite having no legislation to replace it if it fails.
The administration announced Thursday afternoon that it would be cutting the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) advertising budget by 90 percent, from $100 million to $10 million. Additi...