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  1. House GOP Could Derail Spending Bill With Bid to Defund Planned ParenthoodThe failure of Republicans to get the anti-abortion lobby’s chief priority done last year could now generate gridlock and even a government shutdown.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. The Blue Dog That Didn’t Bark: House Dems Hang Tough on Tax BillDuring the last big tax-cut debate in 2001, plenty of Democrats defected to the GOP on crucial votes. It’s not happening this year, so far.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. Trump Threatens Alaska’s Economy Over Senator’s Health-Care VoteEconomy-boosting projects in Alaska are at risk because of Lisa Murkowski’s opposition to the Senate’s health-care bill.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  4. the national circus
    Trump’s Tweets Are Not a Distraction: They Show How Unstable He IsWith the GOP’s agenda on life support, Trump’s combative tweets suggest a complete breakdown is arriving sooner than anyone thought.
    By Frank Rich
  5. last night on late night
    Seth Meyers Tries to Make Sense of ‘Cartoonishly Evil’ Senate Health-Care Bill“The only way this bill could be more cartoonishly evil is if it mandated tying damsels-in-distress to railroad tracks.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  6. Trump Admits He Called GOP Health-Care Plan ‘Mean’He’s complaining that Obama stole the term from him.
    By Chas Danner
  7. Another GOP Senator Comes Out As ‘No’ on Health-Care Bill, Imperiling ProspectsDean Heller of Nevada said he could not support legislation as written. Now things get dicey for Mitch McConnell.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. As Senate Prepares to Attack It, Obamacare Now Favored by Majority of AmericansObamacare’s popularity seems to be peaking just as Republicans get closer to taking it down in legislation that is not popular at all.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. Senate Bill Includes ‘Buffalo Bribe,’ Shifting County Medicaid Costs to New YorkInclusion of this House deal in the Senate bill shows McConnell playing the long game. But it could encourage shakedowns by fence-sitting senators.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. politics
    Here’s How the Senate Health-Care Bill Will Impact Women’s HealthIn its current form, the bill has the greatest impact on low-income women.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  11. Why the GOP’s Senate Health-Care Bill Won’t Be Getting Much NicerWhile McConnell might make some accommodations to moderates, these key areas are non-negotiable.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. 4 Senate Conservatives Are Worried Trumpcare Isn’t Mean EnoughMitch McConnell’s bill would throw millions of poor people off of Medicaid. Rand Paul say it’s too generous for him to support.
    By Eric Levitz
  13. How the Senate Might Do Even More Damage to MedicaidThe upper chamber is reportedly eyeing an approach to cutting the program that could be more draconian than what passed the House.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. Will Senate Health-Care Bill Appear Sooner or Later? Only McConnell Knows.The GOP leader is trying to keep everyone guessing — most recently with reports the Senate will vote on health-care legislation next week.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. Georgia’s Extra-Special Election Enters the Final StretchIn a race that’s too close to call, both parties are seeing a potential harbinger for what will happen in the 2018 midterms.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. Trumpcare May Bring ‘Lifetime Limits’ to Millions With Employer-Based InsuranceIf the Senate bill passes, more than 20 million Americans would face annual and/or lifetime limits on their coverage, a new analysis finds.
    By Eric Levitz
  17. Pretty Much Everyone Hates the American Health Care ActThe trick Republicans must pull off is to convince people the Senate bill is much less “mean” than the House bill, without losing House members.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. Trump Now Thinks the American Health Care Act Is ‘Mean’Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  19. politics
    Claire McCaskill Calls Out GOP for Crafting Health-Care Bill Behind Closed Doors“There’s a group of guys in a back room somewhere that are making these decisions.”
    By Claire Landsbaum
  20. The Biggest Outrage of Trumpcare Continues to Be the Massive Medicaid CutsThis reality should be at the center of the debate over CBO’s “score” of the GOP health bill.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. politics
    Planned Parenthood Forced to Shut Down 4 Clinics in IowaIf the Affordable Health Care Act passes, the same thing could happen in many other states.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  22. Sarah Silverman Has Some Thoughts on Trumpcare▶️ “We don’t need affordable health care. We’re fine … they need Viagra. That should be covered.”
    By E. Alex Jung and Granger Willson
  23. politics
    Mitch McConnell Promised to Invite Women to Work on the Health-Care BillMcConnell made behind-the-scenes assurances in response to criticism that women Senators were being excluded.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  24. CBO Score of House Trumpcare Bill to Arrive During the Week of May 22The Senate’s stalled on Trumpcare until the Congressional Budget Office’s official estimate of how the House bill affects the budget and the public.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. politics
    Senate GOP Begrudgingly Allows Token Woman to Join Health-Care Working GroupSenator Shelley Moore Capito was invited to a meeting about the bill on Tuesday.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  26. politics
    The Health-Care Bill Is Being Written by All Men, and Female Senators Are PissedRepublican and Democratic senators alike are voicing their concerns.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  27. last night on late night
    Seth Meyers Responds to an Email He Received From Speaker Paul Ryan’s OfficeSounds like the congressman from Wisconsin has a standing invite to stop by Late Night anytime.
    By Halle Kiefer
  28. AHCA-Supporting Congressman Walks Out of Interview, Faces Rough Town HallIowa’s Rod Blum said he was “ambushed” by a question about why he limited access to his town-hall events.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  29. Republicans Are Hunkering Down for a Long Legislative WinterThe party came into power promising a string of high-speed victories. Now, after a lot of screwups and delays, it’s mired down.
    By Ed Kilgore
  30. House Republicans Have a Simple Strategy to Defend the Health-Care Bill: Lying▶️ Who needs the truth?
    By Jonathan Chait and Christine Nguyen
  31. Forget About the House Trumpcare Debate — the Senate’s a Whole Different WorldWhile House passage of Trumpcare was essential for GOP plans, Senate concerns and procedures will make the next stage of the debate very different.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. Trumpcare Could Help Build a House Democratic Wave for 2018Whatever else it means, passage of Trumpcare spells trouble for the House Republicans — especially Californians — in tough districts who voted for it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. early and often
    Senators Approach House Republicans’ Health Bill With ‘Suspicion’As House members celebrate passage of a bill even they don’t really like, senators begin crafting their own legislation.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  34. House Passes Controversial GOP Health-Care Bill by an EyelashThere was no room for error, but a comeback led by Fred Upton enabled House Republicans to enact Trumpcare as Democrats sang “Good-bye!”
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. How Much Damage Will Trumpcare Do in Blue States?There is some flexibility for states to pick and choose in the new bill. But also a lot of measures that will affect everyone.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. Paul Ryan Made a Convincing Argument Against Voting for Trumpcare — 8 Years Ago▶️ Life comes at you fast, Paul.
    By Jared T. Miller
  37. fake news
    Exclusive! Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus’s Secret Chats About Zombie Trumpcare“Ever heard of freedom, Reince?”
    By Owen Ellickson
  38. How Fred Upton Resurrected Zombie TrumpcareIt looked like the GOP congressman dealt a coup de grâce to the bill on Tuesday. By Wednesday he was back onboard and had changed the momentum.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. GOP Wants House Vote on Zombie Trumpcare Before Its Impact EstimatedThe GOP’s haste and wild maneuverings over a revised AHCA are caused partly by fear of a highly adverse CBO estimate of its impact.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. Zombie Trumpcare May Undergo Another Last-Minute MutationThe GOP finally got House conservatives onboard. Now they need another round of changes to win back moderates.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  41. GOP Pol Says Sick People Who Lose Affordable Health Coverage Should Just MoveNorth Carolina congressman thinks having to vote with your feet — or your other afflicted parts — to keep health coverage is “Jeffersonian democracy.”
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. Republicans Are Struggling to Find Enough Votes to Pass Zombie TrumpcareHere we go again.
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. Jimmy Kimmel Might Have Struck the Final Blow Against the GOP Health-Care PlanThe last thing Republicans needed this week: a viral plea to protect people with preexisting conditions, like Kimmel’s newborn son.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  44. House Conservatives May Revolt Against Spending DealAfter the GOP got rolled in negotiations over a major spending bill, disappointment on the right may mean Democratic votes are necessary to pass it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. Zombie Trumpcare Getting a Chilly Reception From Senate RepublicansIf the House succeeds in passing a revised version of the American Health Care Act, it faces many trials in the Senate that could unravel it all.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. House GOP Exempts Itself From Zombie TrumpcareThe Affordable Care Act forced Congress to live under Obamacare. Now Republicans want to change that.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. Zombie Trumpcare Lurches Unsteadily OnwardThere are no indications the new bill will pass the House, much less the Senate. Yet Trump continues the push.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. Deal to Revive Zombie Trumpcare Keeps Slipping AwayRepublicans keep promising they’re close to an Obamacare-repeal-and-replacement plan, but the same old problems keep popping up.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. GOP’s New Idea on Preexisting Conditions Is Actually an Old, Bad IdeaIt’s been tried, and it didn’t work the first time.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. Conservative Governors Still Not Ready to Accept Free Medicaid MoneySome observers hoped the crash of Trumpcare would convince 19 holdout states to expand Medicaid. No such luck.
    By Ed Kilgore
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