What is happening with Obamacare now?CREDIT: Screenshot/C-SPAN2
The Senate is currently debating on repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). After ailing Republican health bills, Senate leadership got enough support to at least start debate on Tuesday.
No one knows how this week will end, including those running repeal efforts. The only guarantee is that there will be stumbles. The Senate is pass...
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Trump announces he’s kicking thousands of transgender people out of the military
He made the announcement on Twitter.CREDIT: AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Without warning or explanation, President Trump announced on Twitter Wednesday morning that he is unilaterally reversing the military’s plan to allow transgender service:
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Trump to rally: GOP senators who oppose health bill ‘will have a lot of problems’
- Trump speaks for an hour at campaign-style rally in Youngstown, Ohio
- President boasts of accomplishments and rails against ‘fake news’
Donald Trump warned that Republican senators who don’t support legislation repealing and replacing Obamacare “will have a lot of problems”.
Speaking for an hour at a campaign-style rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump took a victory lap after the Senate voted to begin debate on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “We are now one step closer to liberating our citizens from this Obamacare nightmare,” he said.
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John McCain had the chance to do the right thing on healthcare. He failed | Lucia Graves
There are many reasons to respect the Arizona senator, but his remarkable stoicism and service can’t excuse his yes vote in the Senate
John McCain often gets cast as a truth-teller to Donald Trump, but his voting record says otherwise. And nowhere was that more clear than on Tuesday when, despite his own ill health, when it came to the decision of whether to take other people’s healthcare away, he cast a decisive vote in the wrong direction.
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3 really weird moments in Trump’s press conference with Lebanon’s prime minister
We have some questions.President Donald Trump, with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, speaks during their joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
President Donald Trump held a confusing and contradictory press conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday, moments after the Senate v...
Trump lauds healthcare bill’s progress in Senate – video
Donald Trump gives a press conference with the Lebanese prime minister, Saad Hariri, at the White House on Tuesday, saying he is very happy with the healthcare vote in the Senate and calling it a ‘big step’. Trump also thanks John McCain, who returned to Washington despite his brain cancer diagnosis to cast a vote
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Senators voting to stop Trumpcare represent 36 million more people than the ones who didn’t
It must be nice to live in a democracy.A senator whose caucus represents less than half of the nation walks with the losers of the 2016 popular vote. CREDIT: AP Photo/Molly Riley
Tuesday afternoon, senators split 50–50 on a motion to proceed to debate an as-yet-undetermined plan to strip health coverage from an unknown number of Americans. Vice President Mike Pence, who received fewer votes than his D...