5 Trump tweets about taking responsibility for failure that are very awkward now

July 18, 2017 Donald Trump, health, healthcare, politics

With Trumpcare in ruins, Trump blames everybody but himself.CREDIT: Fox News screengrab
As Republicans’ latest attempt to repeal and/or replace Obamacare went down in flames on Tuesday, President Trump tried to shift blame to everybody but himself.
During remarks to reporters, Trump falsely claimed his plan all along has been to “let Obamacare fail”—he in fact publicly supported simultaneous repe...

The resistance movement killed the Republican health care bill

July 18, 2017 congress, healthcare, politics, Senate, town-hall

Constituent action led Republican senators to defect.People respond to comments by Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, as he addresses a crowd of several hundred during a town hall meeting Monday, June 12, 2017, in Lenexa, Kan. CREDIT: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
Earlier this month, while the Senate was on recess for July 4th, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) held a town hall in a small Kansas town, not far from his homet...

Trump reacts to Trumpcare failure by revealing he has no clue about Senate rules

July 18, 2017 Donald Trump, health, healthcare, politics

The president is Mad Online — but the anger is misdirected.DAY 63 — in this March 23, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump gestures while sitting in an 18-wheeler truck while meeting with truckers and CEOs regarding healthcare on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. CREDIT: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File
President Donald Trump is blaming Senate Democrats after the chamber’s second versio...

Republicans pivot back to a failed health care strategy they previously opposed

July 18, 2017 healthcare, obamacare

Repeal and delay is back.Credit: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
The longtime Republican dream of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act hit a major bump in the road on Monday night, losing the votes needed to advance their replacement bill.
Now that he’s down four votes in the Senate — five including Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who is recovering from surgery — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY...

Repeal and delay is back, and even worse than Trumpcare

July 18, 2017 Donald Trump, health, healthcare, politics

The CBO estimates that if Congress repeals Obamacare, 18 million would lose coverage next year alone.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, where he is expected to present the GOP’s revised health care bill and push toward a showdown vote next week with opposition within the Republican ranks. CREDIT: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
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Nuns are suing to stop a pipeline—because they believe the earth is sacred

July 18, 2017 climate, pipeline, religion, religious-liberty

A win could change the way environmentalists fight pipelines.CREDIT: iStock
A group of Pennsylvania Catholic nuns are suing to protect their land from potential pipeline construction an unusual legal argument: religious liberty, specifically one popularized by right-wing Christians.
As the Washington Post’s Julie Zauzmer reported over the weekend, a group of nuns in Columbia, Pennsylvania are fi...

Two Republicans defect, deliver death blow to Senate health care bill

July 18, 2017 congress, Donald Trump, Health Care Reform, politics, republican-party

Republicans could lose just one more vote or the bill wouldn’t go to the floor.
The second version of the Senate Republican health care bill is dead for now.
Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) announced simultaneously on Monday evening that they would not support the motion to proceed, ultimately killing this version of the Senate’s bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Car...

America first

July 17, 2017 Uncategorized

CREDIT: AP Photo/Alex Brandon
As part of Trump’s “Made in America” week — a week aimed at promoting goods manufactured in the U.S. — the federal government has announced plans to increase the number of seasonal work visas this year, adding 15,000. Additionally, Trump’s “grandmother ban” is headed to the Supreme Court where it will be settled once and for all.

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Obamacare increased access to physicals like the one that found McCain’s blood clot

July 17, 2017 healthcare, John McCain, obamacare, trumpcare

The Senate wants to cut that exact kind of coverage.CREDIT: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced this weekend that he would delay a vote on the “Better Care Act,” the Senate’s version of Trumpcare, because Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is still recovering from surgery for a blood clot. Since McConnell can’t afford to lose a single vote, he is dependent on McCain ...

Tom Price admits that the new Trumpcare is only repeal, no replace

July 16, 2017 Donald Trump, health, healthcare, politics, tom-price

Trump’s secretary of health and human services says all insurers have to do “is dust off how they did business before Obamacare.”HHS Secretary Tom Price on ABC’s This Week CREDIT: ABC
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised, over and over again, that he would replace Obamacare with “something terrific,” that would “take care of everybody” and be “a lot less expensive” for consumers and...