With the midterm elections two weeks away, President Trump is leading Republican candidates in outright lying to constituents. And one of the most popular lies, which Trump tweeted out Wednesday morning, actually tries to convince voters that Republicans hold one of Democrats’ positions on health care — and that Democrats don’t hold it.
Republicans will totally protect people with Pre-Existing Conditions, Democrats will not! Vote Republican.
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Trump’s tax cuts aren’t paying for themselves
When Donald Trump signed his landmark tax cut last year, he didn’t mention the deficit or the debt, despite warnings from nearly every forecaster that t...
Trump’s tax cuts aren’t paying for themselves
When Donald Trump signed his landmark tax cut last year, he didn’t mention the deficit or the debt, despite warnings from nearly every forecaster that t...
Trump Midterm Report Card: Incomplete and Failing
As midterm elections draw near and President Donald Trump nears the halfway point of his term, he is devoting much of his time to campaign rallies for fellow Republicans — which often serve as rallies for the president himself. At these events, banners and professionally made identical signs are ubiquitous, claiming “Promises made, promises kept.” But in an administration run by a man who has made more than 5,000 demonstrably false claims, really only the first half of that slogan is...
Trump Midterm Report Card: Incomplete and Failing
As midterm elections draw near and President Donald Trump nears the halfway point of his term, he is devoting much of his time to campaign rallies for fellow Republicans — which often serve as rallies for the president himself. At these events, banners and professionally made identical signs are ubiquitous, claiming “Promises made, promises kept.” But in an administration run by a man who has made more than 5,000 demonstrably false claims, really only the first half of that slogan is...
Anti-gay lawyers just showed up in the Supreme Court with a big ask for Brett Kavanaugh
A team of conservative lawyers filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Friday, effectively asking the Court to allow religious conservatives to discriminate against same-sex couples.
This latest case, Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, presents many of the same issues that arose last term in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. That case, billed as an epic showdown over whether religion can be used to discriminate, wound up being ...
Republicans in flood of ads are health-care defenders despite work to end Obamacare
Many who supported the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act downplay estimates of higher costs.
Utah voters are poised to expand Medicaid this November
Utah is poised to expand Medicaid, with 59 percent of people saying in a new poll from The Salt Lake Tribune that they support a ballot initiative that would provide health care to roughly 150,000 low-income people in the state.
According to the poll, which The Tribune released Thursday, the percentage of people who support the initiative has increased, up from the 54 percent in favor in a poll last June. The share of voters opposed to the measure fell slightly, from 35 percent in J...
Trump claims ‘All Republicans support people with pre-existing conditions’ in blatant lie
President Donald Trump, whose administration asked a court to end Obamacare’s protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions just last month, claimed “All Republicans support people with pre-existing conditions” in a tweet on Thursday.
All Republicans support people with pre-existing conditions, and if they don’t, they will after I speak to them. I am in total support. Also, Democrats will destroy your Medicare, and I will keep it ...
McConnell warns Republicans will try to repeal Obamacare again if midterms go well for GOP
With midterm elections fast approaching, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has let it be known that Republicans aren’t done trying to repeal Obamacare.
Calling the GOP’s previous attempt to end the Affordable Care Act “the one disappointment of this Congress from a Republican point of view,” McConnell told Reuters on Wednesday that his party could make another run at President Barack Obama’s signature health care law if Republicans expand th...