CBO Confirms That Senate Healthcare Bill Will Be Deathcare For Poorer Americans Age 50-64
The CBO found that the people who are going to be hit hardest by the Senate healthcare bill will be poorer Americans age 50-64.
The CBO found that the people who are going to be hit hardest by the Senate healthcare bill will be poorer Americans age 50-64.
The CBO score is in for the Senate health care bill and the results are not good for the American people as 22 million Americans would lose their coverage under Trumpcare.
A small border town and some of the largest cities in Texas told a federal judge on Monday a new state law aimed at punishing sanctuary cities could lead to an immigration police state and asked him to halt it because it was unconstitutional.
CNN’s Jim Acosta confronted White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer at the press briefing and asked him why the cameras are off. Instead of giving an answer, Spicer ignored the question.
Ex-Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, ousted from office in an election last November, will stand trial in U.S. District Court for defying a 2011 injunction that barred his deputies from stopping and detaining motorists solely on the suspicion of being in the country illegally.
The secret GOP plan to deliberately undermine Obamacare and then make it look like they’re saving healthcare for two years… only to turn around and set it on fire.
Senate Republicans changed their health care bill on Monday to force people to maintain their Trumpcare coverage or face a penalty of having to go without coverage for six months.
The American Medical Association has announced that they oppose the Republican health care bill because it would harm patients by causing people to lose access to healthcare. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Schumer, James L. Madara, Executive Vice President and CEO of the AMA wrote: I am writing to…
Forty economists, including six Nobel Prize winners, have destroyed every major Republican lie about the healthcare bill in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
During an appearance on Fox and Friends, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway told all of the people who are going to lose their healthcare because of Trump to get a job.
Trump has been losing so much so often during his presidency that even a partial Supreme Court win on his Muslim ban has become a cause for celebration for a party that has seen a president do nothing but watch Fox News, play golf, and lose.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped one of the most hotly contested gun rights disputes in years, declining to rule in a California case on whether a person’s constitutional right to keep firearms for self-defense extends outside the home.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned a state court ruling that allowed Arkansas to refuse to list both same-sex spouses on birth certificates, a decision that helps clarify the scope of protections provided by the high court’s landmark 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage.
The family of Philando Castile, a black motorist who was shot five times during a traffic stop in Minnesota last year by a police officer, reached a $3 million settlement with the city of St. Anthony, according to media reports.
Trump thought it would really hurt Democrats if he tied them to the very popular, in contrast to Trumpcare, Obamacare.
During an interview on CBS This Morning, Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she might have retired if Hillary Clinton had won the presidential election.
A U.S. warship struck by a container vessel in Japanese waters failed to respond to warning signals or take evasive action before a collision that killed seven of its crew, according to a report of the incident by the Philippine cargo ship’s captain.
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions, two sons of the Jim Crow era, are ignoring a real and rapidly expanding issue in America. Police brutality and unnecessary deadly force have taken the lives of far too many African Americans without justice. Women, children, elderly and unarmed, all have been victims of a rogue segment of police officers, who’ve proven to be at best unfit for duty and at worst callous murderers with a badge.
U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday that he sees a 50 percent probability that Republicans will be able to pass their healthcare bill.
Kellyanne Conway argued on ABC’s This Week that the government needs to spend less money on treating opioid addiction, and instead addicts need to rely on “will” to get healthy.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, who was in the upper tier of wealth among those in Congress, said the CBO is wrong about the impact of Trumpcare cutting $800 billion plus from Medicaid.
Republicans took to the Sunday shows and came up with a lie that they thought no one would notice. From Trump HHS Secretary Tom Price to sitting US Senators like Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Republicans are lying and claiming that no one will lose their health insurance under Trumpcare.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) knocked down a Chuck Todd question and schooled the Meet The Press host after he implied that Democrats were obstructing Trump and refusing to negotiate on healthcare.
U.S. Republican Senator Rand Paul said on Sunday that he remains open to supporting the Senate healthcare bill but only under certain circumstances.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) confirmed on ABC’s This Week that the Senate version of the healthcare bill makes even deeper cuts to Medicaid than the bill that passed the House.
President Trump tried to push his own possible collusion with Russia scandal onto Hillary Clinton Sunday morning since the blame Obama tactic failed to stick.
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway tried to tell a giant lie when she claimed that people aren’t going to be tossed off of Medicaid under Trumpcare, but ABC’s George Stephanopoulos corrected the record and called her out for making false statements.
This command explicitly states that we are not to endanger or harm the lives of other people in any way and also includes the imperatives to help and support people in all of life’s needs.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced changes to a $10 million government grant program, narrowing its focus around efforts to combat Islamist extremism.
At a Protect Our Care rally in Pittsburgh, PA, Sen. Bernie Sanders laid waste to Trumpcare in just 40 seconds by talking about what it will do to children with disabilities.
Watch Americans stand up and fight for their healthcare, as Bernie Sanders leads a Protect Our Healthcare rally in Pittsburgh, PA
Hundreds of police officers lined the streets of London and Birmingham on Saturday to prevent far-right demonstrators from clashing with rival anti-fascism groups on a day of protest following deadly attacks in Britain.
Republicans complained about the individual mandate in the ACA for seven years, but on Monday, they are going to put a provision in their bill requiring people to buy their crappy no coverage health insurance. The problem is that adding a requirement for coverage would violate the reconciliation rules and for the bill to need…
Here is a tally of where Republican senators stand on the bill in its present form, before any possible amendments, based on statements by or interviews with the lawmakers on Thursday and Friday.
To make sure Trump fully understands the intelligence he’s given, the CIA director has to meet with him every single day.
A Center for American Progress analysis found that the GOP health plan will lead to as many as 27,700 more deaths.
The president is desperately trying to distract from his massively unpopular health care plan, but the American people likely won’t buy it. The president and Republicans now own health care.
Remember when changing your doctor was the worst thing Republicans could say about Obamacare? Trumpcare will kill people.
The European Union must become stronger in response to a weakening of democracy in the United States, Russia and Turkey, the leader of Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats said in remarks published on Saturday.
In a social media statement that can only be labeled psychotic, Trump blamed former President Obama for not stopping the Russia attack on the 2016 election that he claims never happened. Trump tweeted: Just out: The Obama Administration knew far in advance of November 8th about election meddling by Russia. Did nothing about it. WHY?…
If Fox “News” didn’t spend so much time defending Emperor Trump — and attacking his detractors (of which there are many) — there might be enough time to actually broadcast some real news. No matter, because Fox & Friends — his favourite show — quintupled down, airing another another softball interview with him this morning, which I’ll get to eventually.
Trump and the White House made a giant mistake by responding to request from the House Oversight Committee for a formal letter denying the existence of tapes with a pasting to Trump’s tweets into a letter. This means that Trump’s tweets are now official presidential statements and can be used in the criminal case against him.
Hillary Clinton is free of political life and speaking her mind. Clinton spoke the blunt truth and said Republicans would be known as the death party if Trumpcare becomes law.
Donald Trump went off on one of his unhinged rants and his wife struggled to keep a straight face as the self-important president babbled away.
Patriotic Americans are fighting back. All across the country, people are protesting Trumpcare and holding “die-ins” to demonstrate the result of the horrific Republican bill that will not only “repeal” Obamacare, but go back to times darker than before Obamacare in terms of healthcare.
Health insurers are concerned about the U.S. Senate’s plans to cut the Medicaid program for the poor and the impact such a move would have on state governments, the industry’s largest lobbyist said on Friday.
The super PAC that Vice President Mike Pence is allied with is getting ready to launch a seven-figure attack ad buy on Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada.
Donald Trump is threatening to kill health insurance coverage for tens of millions of Americans next month if Democrats don’t support his health care bill. Michael Bender of the Wall Street Journal reported: Trump won't commit to Obamacare insurance payments next month, Spicer says briefing. WH is using the $$$ as leverage in health care…
Johnny Depp on Friday apologized for joking about assassinating U.S. President Donald Trump, saying his remarks were in “poor taste.”
Only CNN aired the full audio of the Trump administration’s no video daily press briefing in defiance of the White House’s attempts to hide information from the American people.
Legal experts say Donald Trump added to his legal jeopardy and the potential obstruction of justice case against him during an interview on Fox News. The part of the interview that added to Trump’s woes was set up by a Fox and Friends host flattering the President by saying he was smart to lie about…
The press failed in the 2016 election. Instead of riding over this sore spot to point fingers at Putin and even Trump – both of whom certainly deserves it – we need to take ownership of this failure. The one thing we have control over and need to change for the future is our own choices.
Russia’s heavy hand on tech imports worries U.S. officials.
Donald Trump’s presidency has been taking on water from day one thanks to the Russia scandal, but the President is choosing to obsess over the fact that Democrats won’t participate in his unpopular agenda.
Republican governors also refused to secure voting systems, with one Republican calling it an assault on “state’s rights.”
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Friday that Britons were lied to during the campaign before the Brexit referendum last year and he lashed out at those behind the ‘Out’ campaign for not taking responsibility when they won.
In a tone that would become familiar in the following months, Republicans and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) allowed Russia to interfere in the election to help Trump by expressing skepticism about the intelligence that Russia was meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
In a total disaster of a Fox News interview, President Donald Trump admitted to committing the crime of witness tampering.
A U.S. judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the deportation of about 100 Iraqi nationals rounded up in Michigan in recent weeks who argued that they could face persecution or torture in Iraq because they are religious minorities.
“Seventy-five million Americans all have the same health insurance, and the big health bill that the Republicans unveiled in the Senate today takes a meat ax to that health insurer.”
Despite the insecure president’s social media tantrums, the investigation into his presidential campaign’s ties to Russia isn’t going anywhere.
According to a recent poll, the GOP health care legislation is “the least popular major bill in decades.”
In a lengthy post on his Facebook page, former President Obama called for Democrats and Republicans to work together to save health care for 23 million people while smacking down Republicans who are trying to take away health care to cut taxes for the rich.
The spontaneous demonstrations by pro-ACA activists shows how politically toxic this issue has become for Republicans as they prepare to dismantle Obamacare.
Perhaps, the most un-American element to the Republican health care bill is that it would take health insurance away from 441,300 veterans who are on Medicaid.
Since Trump signed his anti-immigrant executive order, arrests went up 38% and fewer people are trying to enter the U.S. illegally.
In another encounter with the press caught on camera, Dowd swore at and gave the middle finger to a CNBC reporter.
Former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, known for pursuing a series of cases targeting public corruption and crime on Wall Street before President Donald Trump fired him in March, has struck a book deal.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is calling the Republican health care bill what it really is. Franken described the bill as a thinly disguised tax cut for billionaires.
More than 80 percent of Americans want to limit firearms access for people with mental illness and require background checks at gun shows and in private sales, according to a Pew Research Center survey released on Thursday.
Republican Senators are so cowardly that they are running away from reporters when they are asked about the Senate health care bill.
Republican Senators Rand Paul (KY), Mike Lee (UT), Ron Johnson (WI), and Ted Cruz (TX) have all come out in opposition to the Senate Trumpcare bill.
Minnesota’s government and businesses will continue to engage with Cuba in the areas they can, like agricultural trade, despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s partial rollback of the detente, Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith said on Thursday.
NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd is reporting that a reliable source tells him that three Republican Senators are ready to publicly oppose Trumpcare today. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can only afford to lose two Senators, so Senate Trumpcare is already on life support.
When a man with the strategic sense of Donald Trump attacks someone, it’s because they are effective, not because they are not good at their job.
Donald Trump admitted that he has no tapes of James Comey, but in a twist that shows how crazy Trump is, the President didn’t rule out someone else spying on him inside the White House. Trump tweeted the truth about the Comey tapes and thinks someone is spying on him: With all of the recently…
It is being reported that the Russian hacking of state and local election databases was more extensive than previously reported and some of the stolen information might have ended up in the Trump campaign’s hands.
President Trump and Republicans are pretending Russia didn’t attack the U.S. during the 2016 election and isn’t continuing to attack it right now, Democrats are trying their best as the minority party to protect the country.
Democrats have turned the tables on Republicans and destroyed Trumpcare by stating that the Senate health care bill will result in, “higher costs, less coverage, and millions of Americans will lose their health insurance.”
Top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) gave Trump until Friday to turn the tapes over and if he won’t, subpoenas could be coming his way.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is using his Senate leadership position as head of Democratic outreach to call on millions of Americans to come together to fight against the Senate health care bill.
U.S. House Democrats rejected an assertion by Deutsche Bank that privacy laws prevent it from sharing information about President Donald Trump’s finances, as they investigate possible collusion between his campaign team and Russia.
Former Obama White House Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Labor Secretary Chris Lu slammed Republican Senators for their hypocrisy on healthcare, saying they wouldn’t consider plans for themselves that offer what the GOP plan offers for the people.
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said she hasn’t seen any health care bill text yet this morning because she is not a lobbyist or a reporter.
After blaming Obama for the Russian election interference, Trump then claimed that the election interference was a Democratic hoax, which means that Trump now believes that climate change and the Russia scandal aren’t real.
In a statement on social media, Trump incriminated himself on Russia by strongly denied that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election but blaming Obama for Russian meddling that the President says never happened.
At a rally in Iowa, President Trump said that he didn’t want a poor person in his cabinet. At the heart of Trump’s poverty shaming is a belief that poor people aren’t smart and deserving of economic opportunities.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers confirmed to special counsel Robert Mueller that Trump also asked them to deny that he was under federal investigation which Comey’s account of the reason why he was fired by Donald Trump.
A healthcare bill being unveiled by U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday is expected to roll back the Obamacare expansion of the Medicaid healthcare program for the poor and reshape subsidies to low-income people buying private insurance.
Nearly a third of Iowa’s energy comes from wind power, and the Hawkeye State uses a greater percentage of it than any other state in the country.
This president can continue to hold campaign rallies and convince himself that those who show up actually represent the vast majority of the country, but they don’t.
With a slim margin for error and Republicans already backing away, Trumpcare may be on its deathbed before a single vote is cast in the U.S. Senate.
Sean Spicer is blaming White House reporters for the Trump White House going dark on briefings, but ABC’s Jonathan Karl made a list of 25 questions Sean Spicer has yet to answer.
It isn’t a surprise, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell kept his health care bill a secret because it is even worse than the House passed Trumpcare bill.
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) if Trump was right and Democrats would be better off working with him. The Democratic Congressman responded telling America that it is Trump and the Republican Party who are refusing to work with Democrats.
The Congressional Black Caucus didn’t just decline Trump’s invitation to the White House. They also shredded Trump for his policies.
House Oversight Democrats are connecting the dots and demanding to know why Trump is jeopardizing classified information by not suspending Jared Kushner’s security clearance.
U.S. senators expressed concern on Wednesday about a plan to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, fearing a rush to consider the major legislation as Republican leaders prepare to unveil it.
Forget the media doom and gloom. Three different examinations of the performance of Democrats in the special elections revealed that the Democrats are performing better than expected in these elections and are in a position to win back the House in 2018.