Trump says he is willing to work with Democrats on healthcare reform

President says he expects a vote on healthcare next year and says he may issue a ‘major’ executive order to allow the purchase of insurance across state lines

Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was open to working with Democrats on healthcare, following the collapse of yet another Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Trump claimed that the GOP could corral enough votes to pass the measure – a last-gasp effort to deliver on a central campaign promise of the last seven years – but not in time for this week’s deadline, after which 60 votes would be needed instead of 51.

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‘Height of hypocrisy’: Clinton calls out Trump team over private email reports

Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law among six administration figures who reportedly used private email accounts for White House business

At least six senior Trump administration figures have used private email accounts for official White House business, according to various media reports.

Related: Republican plan to defeat Obamacare looks doomed as Susan Collins says no to bill

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Trevor Noah on treasury secretary Mnuchin: ‘So out of touch it’s almost beautiful’

Trevor Noah addressed Steven Mnuchin’s attempts at tax reform – and he and his wife Louse Linton’s attempts to use a government jet for their honeymoon

On Monday night, Trevor Noah reprised one of his signature segments, Profiles in Tremendousness, to discuss treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton.

“Donald Trump has been president for eight months now and most of his campaign promises remain undone, from repealing Obamacare to building the beautiful wall t...

‘This is the only country I know’: DREAMers react to Trump’s cynical game

The Trump administration’s decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is a cruel and cynical political ploy that puts the lives of nearly 800,000 young people who came to America as children in continued limbo.

Known as DREAMers, these young people have lived the bulk of their lives in the United States, but lack the security of full citizenship and under the constant threat of deportation to a country that is foreign to many of them. That t...

Interior Department investigating Zinke for reportedly threatening senators over Trumpcare votes

The Interior Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has launched a “preliminary investigation” over reports that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke threatened to pull funding from Alaskan energy projects if Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) didn’t vote in support of President Donald Trump’s health care proposal.

“The OIG is undertaking a preliminary investigation into this matter,” Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall sai...

Republicans urge Trump to keep critical health subsidies for low-income people

Donald Trump has threatened to stop payments that help millions to afford insurance, amid frustration over his party’s failure to repeal Obamacare

Republicans lawmakers are urging Donald Trump to continue paying critical health insurance subsidies that help lower-income people afford it, amid growing concern that the president will follow through on his threat to cancel them.

Frustrated by his party’s failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Trump has dangled the possibility that he would stop the payments – a move that experts say would send insurance markets into turmoil and cause premiums to rise dramatically.

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Tracking Trump: Scaramucci speaks out and Priebus is out

Donald Trump’s new communications director started his job with a foul-mouthed rant, his chief of staff is out and Republicans struggled on healthcare

As the Republicans’ blundered towards failure in their attempt to undo the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Donald Trump made a series of unprecedented attacks on his attorney general while his Mini-Me communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, showed the tact and subtlety of a bull on its first day on staff in a china shop.

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In a dramatic wee-hours vote on Friday, a Republican plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act collapsed, with three GOP senators – Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and John McCain – voting ‘No’. McCain then returne...

John McCain sinks ‘skinny repeal’ of Obamacare health act

Arizona senator, whose war record Trump mocked, deals major blow to president’s agenda in dramatic late-night vote

Arizona senator John McCain torpedoed the Obamacare repeal bill – and with it Donald Trump’s legislative agenda – in a night of high drama on Capitol Hill.

McCain’s vote against the bill in the early hours of Friday morning delivered a major setback for Republicans who have spent seven years vowing to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

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