Thank Disability Rights Activists, Not John McCain For Defeat Of Trumpcare

“Folks praising Murkowski, Collins, and McCain: I think you misspelled Hirono, ADAPT, and every activist resisting the Republican agenda.”

Jake Johnson
作者 Jake Johnson
Protesters supporting people with disabilities gather outside the White House in Washington, May 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Following the Senate's vote on Friday that dealt a crushing blow to the GOP's hopes of repealing Obamacare, major media outlets, Democratic lawmakers, and high-profile pundits singled out Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) vote against the so-called "skinny repeal" measure as the decisive factor in its downfall. But many are objecting strongly to this

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CBO Says GOP Repeal-Only Plan Leaves 32M Uninsured By 2026

The losses in the number of people with insurance would start right away, with 17 million more people being uninsured in 2018 than predicted under current law.

Tim Ryan
作者 Tim Ryan
In this March 8, 2017, file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee Headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans intent on scrapping Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act have a budget problem. As it turns out, repealing and replacing the law they hate so much won’t save nearly as much money as getting rid of it entirely, the goal they’ve been campaigning on for seven years. That means trouble for the federal deficit and for Congress’ fiscal conservatives who repeatedly warn about leaving their children and grandchildren worse off financially. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON – The Republican plan to repeal most of the Affordable Care Act without a ready replacement would leave 32 million more people uninsured by 2026 than under current law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday. The plan, which appears to already have enough Republican opponents in the Senate to sink it, would also

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Fact Check: Trump Touts His Own Record While Abroad

Here’s a new U.S. export: President Donald Trump’s exaggerations about his record.

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作者 Associated Press
Donald and Melania Trump wave to reporters before boarding the Air Force One to Brussels, at the end of a 2-day visit to Italy, May 24, 2017. (AP/Riccardo De Luca)

In his speech in Saudi Arabia on Sunday during his first foreign trip as president, Trump claimed to have accomplished record spending on the armed forces, even though Congress has yet to pass a budget that reflects his plans and promises. Trump releases a detailed budget proposal Tuesday after having come up only with an outline before, and

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Trump Team Seeks Friday Passage Of Revised Healthcare Bill

Pence and a few other White House officials made a new offer to conservative House Republicans late Monday on the GOP’s failed health care bill, hoping to resuscitate a measure that crashed spectacularly less than two weeks ago.

ZeroHedge.com
作者 ZeroHedge.com
In this Saturday, April 1, 2017, photo, Vice President Mike Pence speaks at DynaLab, Inc. in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Pence and a few other White House officials made a new offer to conservative House Republicans late Monday on the GOP's failed health care bill, hoping to resuscitate a measure that crashed spectacularly less than two weeks ago. (AP/John Minchillo)

Just over a week after the Republicans' embarrassing failure to repeal Obamacare as a result of infighting with both conservative and moderate factions, on Monday White House officials led by the vice president met the same opposing Republicans in the House of Representatives, in an aggressive effort to revive the passage of the Republican

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Obamacare Is A Failure, But It Will Only ‘Explode’ If Trump Sabotages It

The Republicans’ disastrous repeal effort made the ACA marginally less unpopular, but its favorability rating is still below 50 percent. Democrats didn’t win this recent fight; Republicans simply lost.

Jonathan Walker
作者 Jonathan Walker
President Donald Trump, flanked by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, left, and Vice President Mike Pence, meets with members of the media regarding the health care overhaul bill, March 24, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. The American Health Care Act has gone down in a blaze of glory. It is time to focus on what President Donald Trump has long said would be his plan B. Trump previously admitted he favored letting Obamacare collapse and then he would try to repeal the law after it completely failed. “If we waited

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Trump Demands Vote For Widely Unpopular American Health Care Act

Trump issued a stark ultimatum to wavering House Republicans, that if they don’t get behind the AHCA, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, will remain the “law of the land.”

Lauren McCauley
作者 Lauren McCauley
President Donald Trump pauses in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Friday, March 24, 2017, during an announcement on the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline. (AP/Evan Vucci)

In their frenzied effort to strong-arm support for the flailing American Health Care Act (AHCA) before a vote on Friday, President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan have officially made the Republican plan even worse. Trump issued a stark ultimatum to wavering House Republicans late Thursday, dispatching budget director Mick Mulvaney to

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