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Senate Health Care Bill Would Leave 22 Million Without Insurance

By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Susan Cornwell
Trump Says He Used The Word 'Mean' Before Barack Obama

By Harriet Sinclair
Republicans Find Scant Support For Healthcare Bill

By Harriet Sinclair
The Illusory Savings From Cutting Medicaid

By Steve Chapman
Trump Appointee Is A Saudi Government Lobbyist

By Alternet

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Senate Health Care Bill Would Leave 22 Million Without Insurance
Republicans have targeted Obamacare since it was passed in 2010, viewing it as costly government intrusion and saying that individual insurance markets are collapsing. The legislation expanded health coverage to some 20 million Americans, through provisions such as mandating that individuals obtain health insurance and expanding Medicaid.
By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Susan Cornwell
Trump Says He Used The Word 'Mean' Before Barack Obama
Despite Trump appearing to suggest he had used the word “mean” to describe his own party's healthcare bill, the president appeared more concerned with outlining who coined the description. “Well he used my term, mean,” Trump said during an interview with Fox and Friends on Sunday.
By Harriet Sinclair
Republicans Find Scant Support For Healthcare Bill
"I have very serious concerns about the bill," Republican Senator Susan Collins told ABC's This Week in a Sunday interview. "It's hard for me to see the bill passing this week." And Senator Ron Johnson, from Wisconsin, who is among the five members who has already stated they will not be supporting the bill, said in a Sunday interview with NBC’s Meet the Press it was too early to hold a vote on the matter.
By Harriet Sinclair
The Illusory Savings From Cutting Medicaid
What it means is that if the government does something that costs money, some human somewhere will bear the expense. "Free" public schools, "free" parks and "free" roads all have to be paid for by the citizenry. Collectively, we can't get something for nothing. This useful insight has long been offered as an objection to costly government programs. But it applies as well to measures that extract savings from costly government programs.
By Steve Chapman
Trump Appointee Is A Saudi Government Lobbyist
One of President Donald Trump’s newest appointees is a registered agent of Saudi Arabia earning hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on the kingdom’s behalf, according to U.S. Department of Justice records reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity. Since January, the Saudi Arabian foreign ministry has paid longtime Republican lobbyist Richard Hohlt about $430,000 in exchange for “advice on legislative and public affairs strategies.”
By Alternet
Fast Food Lobbyists Fight State And City Regulation
When the city council of Santa Fe, New Mexico, placed a measure on the local ballot to tax sugary drinks earlier this year, the soda industry responded quickly, pouring $1.3 million into the anti-tax campaign. To cover their bases, industry lobbyists also pursued a back-up plan: they backed a bill in the state legislature to strip local governments of the power to levy such taxes.
By Alternet

Only Scant Majority Of White Voters Pleased By Trump
That finding comes from Pew Research Center, which polled more than 2,500 adults around the U.S. between June 8-18. While African Americans and Latinos overwhelmingly gave the president’s performance a thumbs-down, 50 percent of white respondents report feeling good about Trump’s presidency. Just 44 percent think that Trump deserves a poor performance review.
By Kali Holloway
Domestic Terrorism: Home Is Where The Hate Is
While most such groups had collapsed after 9/11, the law center noticed an explosion of so-called Patriot groups that began in 2009, the first year of Obama’s presidency, and reached a peak in 2012, when the group counted 1,360 active Patriot groups and 1,007 hate groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, skinheads and neo-Nazis. According to our database, during this same period, from 2008 to 2013, terror plots and actions by far-right groups outnumbered Islamist domestic terror cases by more than 2 to 1. Far-right extremists also inflicted three times as many deaths as Islamists during this period.
By David Neiwert
New York Times Publishes Astonishing Timeline Of Trump Lies
The New York Times has published a compendium of Trump’s lies since taking office. Reporters David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson have professionally focused their analytical minds on the most unprofessional and unfocused man now atop the American political system. Their June 23 report gives credit where credit is due.
By Steven Rosenfeld
White House Watch

Trump Says He Used The Word 'Mean' Before Barack Obama
Despite Trump appearing to suggest he had used the word “mean” to describe his own party's healthcare bill, the president appeared more concerned with outlining who coined the description. “Well he used my term, mean,” Trump said during an interview with Fox and Friends on Sunday.
By Harriet Sinclair
The Illusory Savings From Cutting Medicaid
What it means is that if the government does something that costs money, some human somewhere will bear the expense. "Free" public schools, "free" parks and "free" roads all have to be paid for by the citizenry. Collectively, we can't get something for nothing. This useful insight has long been offered as an objection to costly government programs. But it applies as well to measures that extract savings from costly government programs.
By Steve Chapman
Trump Appointee Is A Saudi Government Lobbyist
One of President Donald Trump’s newest appointees is a registered agent of Saudi Arabia earning hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on the kingdom’s behalf, according to U.S. Department of Justice records reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity. Since January, the Saudi Arabian foreign ministry has paid longtime Republican lobbyist Richard Hohlt about $430,000 in exchange for “advice on legislative and public affairs strategies.”
By Alternet
New York Times Publishes Astonishing Timeline Of Trump Lies
The New York Times has published a compendium of Trump’s lies since taking office. Reporters David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson have professionally focused their analytical minds on the most unprofessional and unfocused man now atop the American political system. Their June 23 report gives credit where credit is due.
By Steven Rosenfeld
Senate Health Bill Could Leave Millions Uninsured And Increase Costs For Sick, Seniors
The Senate health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act would likely cause millions of Americans to lose their Medicaid and private insurance marketplace coverage. It also could make coverage more expensive for many sicker, older and low-income individuals.
By Tony Pugh
Run, Woman, Run
"What I'm seeing this year are women who aren't waiting to be asked," Walsh said. "You know that line, 'If we aren't at the table, we're on the menu'? Well, a lot of women feel they're on the chopping block. What they care about is in jeopardy, and they're not sitting on the sidelines anymore."
By Connie Schultz
Presidential Election

Could This Iron Worker And Union Organizer Unseat Paul Ryan In 2018?
"This is repealing and replacing Obamacare, everybody doesn't get what they want," Ryan opines in the ad before he's interrupted by Randy Bryce, a Wisconsin ironworker, military veteran and union organizer placing health care at the center of his platform.
By Alexandra Rosenmann
Neo-Nazis Join With Pro-Russian Forces In Germany
So it’s no surprise that pro-Kremlin propaganda outlets and activists are trying to disrupt the German election in September; so-called “fake news” is considered such a threat there that the government is cracking down on it in law. But what is surprising, according to an analysis by the Atlantic Council, are the alarming new alliances being formed to distribute propaganda to German internet users.
By Josh Lowe
Ossoff Fell Short Despite Nationwide Support In Deep-Red District
In a long-awaited, much-watched runoff seen across the country as an early verdict on Trump’s presidency, youthful Democrat newcomer Jon Ossoff failed to beat veteran Republican officeholder Karen Handel in the race for Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District.
By Steven Rosenfeld
Megyn Kelly Smacks Down Perspiring, Prevaricating Alex Jones
By Gene Lyons
Supreme Court To Decide On Partisan Gerrymandering: Can It Be Used To Create Favorable Voting Districts?
The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a closely watched challenge to partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin and decide whether it is unconstitutional for party leaders to entrench themselves in power with carefully drawn electoral maps. The case of Gill vs. Whitford is to be heard in the fall, and it could yield one of the most important rulings on political power in decades.
By David G Savage
White House Ignoring Russia Threat: Former CIA Analyst
A former CIA analyst warns the Trump administration’s approach to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election is comparable to how the the Bush administration treated warnings about Al-Qaeda before 9/11. Russia’s influence and propaganda “is continuing in the United States and across Europe,” said Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst and targeting officer during an interview on MSNBC ahead of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ testimony Tuesday.
By Graham Lanktree
Capitol Hill

Trump Says He Used The Word 'Mean' Before Barack Obama
Despite Trump appearing to suggest he had used the word “mean” to describe his own party's healthcare bill, the president appeared more concerned with outlining who coined the description. “Well he used my term, mean,” Trump said during an interview with Fox and Friends on Sunday.
By Harriet Sinclair
Republicans Find Scant Support For Healthcare Bill
"I have very serious concerns about the bill," Republican Senator Susan Collins told ABC's This Week in a Sunday interview. "It's hard for me to see the bill passing this week." And Senator Ron Johnson, from Wisconsin, who is among the five members who has already stated they will not be supporting the bill, said in a Sunday interview with NBC’s Meet the Press it was too early to hold a vote on the matter.
By Harriet Sinclair
The Illusory Savings From Cutting Medicaid
What it means is that if the government does something that costs money, some human somewhere will bear the expense. "Free" public schools, "free" parks and "free" roads all have to be paid for by the citizenry. Collectively, we can't get something for nothing. This useful insight has long been offered as an objection to costly government programs. But it applies as well to measures that extract savings from costly government programs.
By Steve Chapman
Senate Health Bill Could Leave Millions Uninsured And Increase Costs For Sick, Seniors
The Senate health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act would likely cause millions of Americans to lose their Medicaid and private insurance marketplace coverage. It also could make coverage more expensive for many sicker, older and low-income individuals.
By Tony Pugh
Could This Iron Worker And Union Organizer Unseat Paul Ryan In 2018?
"This is repealing and replacing Obamacare, everybody doesn't get what they want," Ryan opines in the ad before he's interrupted by Randy Bryce, a Wisconsin ironworker, military veteran and union organizer placing health care at the center of his platform.
By Alexandra Rosenmann
Run, Woman, Run
"What I'm seeing this year are women who aren't waiting to be asked," Walsh said. "You know that line, 'If we aren't at the table, we're on the menu'? Well, a lot of women feel they're on the chopping block. What they care about is in jeopardy, and they're not sitting on the sidelines anymore."
By Connie Schultz
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