A Republican Senate could not muster even 50 votes for the full repeal of Obamacare’s taxes and spending. Six Republican senators who had voted for repeal in 2015, when the party was merely pretending it was possible, flipped on Wednesday rather than deliver. The conclusion is obvious.
President Trump’s unexpected announcement Wednesday that the military would no longer accept transgender service members left many in the administration wondering why he had suddenly arrived at such a conclusion and how he planned to implement such a consequential policy.
Sen. Bernie Sanders will not support a “sham” amendment to the Republican healthcare bill dismantling Obamacare that would implement a single-payer healthcare insurance program.
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Anthony Scaramucci, the incoming White House communications director, said Wednesday evening that he will reach out to federal officials over a financial disclosure leak, which he called a ‘felony.’
Voters gave former President Barack Obama a chance to clean up America’s healthcare system because it was 2008, and he said he would fix it. He used false promises to sell the public a bill of goods, so it still needs fixing. Republicans now have a chance to do that, and it’s not a chance they can afford to let slip by.
What is it about Russia — some vestige of all those Cold War spy films, perhaps — that mentioning it makes so many people, on all political sides, behave so irrationally?
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday commandeered a Democrat resolution demanding more information about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ actions and turned it into a resolution demanding further investigation into Hillary Clinton.
President Trump plans to nominate Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to be ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom at the State Department, the White House announced Wednesday.
