POLITICUSUSA
Many New Yorkers were expecting this year would be the one in which New York finally passed the “New York Health Act.”
30 years after being introduced, the prospect of the state realizing the possibilities of single-payer healthcare free from corporate influence has enough votes to pass.
Mick Mulvaney, the director of the White House’s Office of Budget and Management, created a stir in Washington this week when he said that when he was in Congress he only talked to lobbyists who gave him substantial campaign contributions.
"At the end of the day, they walked out with a package that they could sign off on and their big donors could sign off on. And I don't care how many sympathetic faces they make, that's what the process was all about."
"The bill has a giveaway to the gun lobby, cuts Medicare, raids the Affordable Care Act, and makes it harder for people with disabilities to get Medicaid."
Donald Trump doesn’t do irony, and that’s why today he promised to make government honest again. Trump won PolitiFact’s 2015 Lie of the Year and his scorecard is weighted in the mostly false, false and pants on fire direction. That is to say, Trump is known for his dishonesty.