The Republicans’ moment of victory on health care didn’t last long.
With cancer-stricken John McCain making a stirring speech and casting the decisive procedural vote on Tuesday, President Trump and Mitch McConnell were able to get the health bill out of intensive care and to the Senate floor.
But in the vote hours later on the main repeal-and-replace bill—the one that the president and GOP leadership have been pushing so hard—nine Republican senators defected. It wasn’t even close.
In other words, the president’s team is no closer to getting a health care bill than before McConnell, with an appeal to party loyalty, miraculously brought the effort back from the dead. The Republican divide is as deep as ever.
Indeed, the Republicans failed again yesterday to pass a repeal-only bill, which Trump favored as a backup but which never had a chance.
Their only hope now is to pass something fairly miniscule and declare victory.
But the so-called “skinny repeal” is looking increasingly like anorexic repeal.
Keep in mind that Republicans spent seven years promising to repeal and replace ObamaCare. It’s awfully hard for them to walk away empty-handed.
So they need to pass something, anything, to get to a House-Senate conference and then declare victory.
Given that this fight has consumed the first six months of the administration, my sense is that the GOP would like to rid itself of the issue and move on. HHS Secretary Tom Price actually spoke on CNBC of passing “the lowest common denominator…What gets us to 50 votes so that we can move forward on a health-care reform legislation… that’s what needs to happen.”
The skinny repeal, as I understand it, would abolish the Obama law’s mandates for individuals and larger companies (and ax a tax on medical device makers).
One problem is that without a mandate, lots of healthy people can just wait till they get sick to buy insurance, which could shatter the financial underpinnings of the system. The larger dilemma is that this would leave almost all of ObamaCare in place, including subsidies, regulations on required services and the Medicaid expansion.
One other thought: there has not been a single committee hearing on this legislation that affects one-sixth of the economy.
As McCain said before voting to proceed (and later supporting the repeal-and-replace bill): “We’ve tried to do this by coming up with a proposal behind closed doors in consultation with the administration, then springing it on skeptical members, trying to convince them it’s better than nothing, asking us to swallow our doubts and force it past a unified opposition. I don’t think that’s going to work in the end, and it probably shouldn’t.”
If Democrats were doing that, the right would be going crazy. The Dems did use parliamentary maneuvers to ram through ObamaCare on a party-line vote, but they held lots of hearings.
McConnell has no time to worry about legislative niceties. After the Republican defections on the bigger bills, he’s got an uphill battle to get to 50—on something.
Howard Kurtz is a Fox News analyst and the host of “MediaBuzz” (Sundays 11 a.m.). He is the author of five books and is based in Washington. Follow him at @HowardKurtz. Click here for more information on Howard Kurtz.
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Obama returns…
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Pence confirms Romney is under 'active consideration' for secretary of state
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Charlie Gard: It Can't Happen Here – or Can It?
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Pete Davidson ripped: 'I know he lost his eye in war — or whatever'…
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Academics Play the Global Warming Card
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Top US admiral expresses growing concerns over Russian naval activities
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Chris Matthews compares Ivanka, Jared Kushner to Saddam Hussein's sons
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Ailes Funeral: An 'Act of Defiance'…
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Obama administration backs off Pacific trade deal vote effort
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Marine Le Pen and the French Role in Roundups of Jews
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Gingrich praises Trump's vow to expand US nukes
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Crime Is the New Black Entitlement
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New York illegal immigrant with possible MS-13 ties stands trial in break-in, sex assault
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Famed climber Ueli Steck killed near Mount Everest
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'SINNER IN YOUR MIDST' Maher addresses n-word controversy on 'Real Time'
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Comey reportedly confronted Lynch over Clinton email probe involvement
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WHAT WE KNOW The terror probe in the London attacks opens up
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Israeli ambassador backs Trump plan for Jerusalem embassy
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Cosmonaut shows space station hole to calm public…
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Man kills woman and her mother before fleeing with two children and shooting self during police chase
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Carter Page: FBI reportedly obtained FISA warrant to monitor ex-Trump adviser
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24 dead after river overflows, destroying homes in Colombia
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FOX NEWS PRIME TIME Tucker Carlson leads brand new evening lineup
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ISIS-linked terrorists in Philippines take hundreds of hostages, most Christian, priest says
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Requiem for a Transsexualized Boy
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Red states urge Trump to act against climate rules on day one
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Republicans draw the line with Trump on Russia
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Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Energy to buy Oncor for $11.25 billion
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Do It Already! How Mitch McConnell Fixes the Senate
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CEO Describes Tech Giants as Humble, Trustworthy…
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Should We Watch Wile E. Coyote Go Off the Cliff?
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Trump defends decision to settle Trump University lawsuits
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Clinton receives standing ovation at Broadway show
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'Fixer Upper' big announcement
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Baltimore police overhaul is approved over Trump objections
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Supreme Court denies Arkansas' request to conduct execution
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Will the Split-Roll Property Tax Destroy California?
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Graham will offer Trump military authorization against North Korea
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Minnesota students hold walk-out protest over city’s plan to disband police department
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Qatar royals among the 26 hostages freed in bargain
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Fraud alleged in Minnesota homecare provider union
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UN backs Syrian cease-fire deal
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Robert Bentley: Alabama governor resigns over sex scandal – VIDEO: Alabama Governor Robert Bentley resigns
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Workers remodeling Ted Bundy's childhood home report strange occurrences
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Texas prosecutor drops Ohio man's cold case murder charge
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ISIS releases video of Berlin suspect pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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RNC condemns member who called for McCain to 'just die already' on social media
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Teens Film Selves Robbing, Beating 8-Year-Old; Post Video To Socials…
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5,000 National Guard troops will be deployed for Trump swearing in
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David French Contradicts Himself
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Cher, Katy Perry, Amy Schumer to attend anti-Trump protests in Washington
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Arrests of illegal immigrants reportedly jumped 32 percent in Trump's first months
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'Bad Dog!': Huckabee slams rapper Bow Wow for tweet targeting Melania Trump
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House Republicans test Trump on his U.S.-Mexico wall
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American Airlines acts quickly after worker's confrontation with mother – United CEO won't add chairman title in 2018
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'TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT': Mark Cuban — US must seek best job applicants, foreign or domestic
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Python hunters capture 15-foot snake in Florida Everglades
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Former NFL player: League's brand now anti-Americanism and thuggery
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Cosby loses in court
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The Washington Post hits readers with the very edgy and very original idea of comparing Trump to Hitler
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Trump, U.S. Congress will agree on some issues, long-term questions loom
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This was an epic Clinton collapse
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Bennett: DNC chair's pro-choice requirement 'making the party smaller'
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FIGHTING MAD Flag decree turns veterans against homeowners group
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Man charged with threatening Fla. lawmaker
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Perino & Stirewalt podcast: I’ll tell you what…
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Ship hijacked off Yemen coast is freed
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Pence backs Kennedy for Senate '100 percent'
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State Dept. now offering $25M for ISIS leader
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Who Really Torpedoed Hillary's Campaign?
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Former Saudi oil chief: OPEC tends 'to cheat'
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Bill Nye, the Eugenics Guy
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Did HuffPo flub report on Trump-Turkey business call?
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'SNL': Kellyanne has a fatal attraction to CNN's Jake Tapper
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Rory McIlroy distances himself from Trump after golf round
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Hannity Beats Maddow Handily in First Four Nights Head-to-Head
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Motorcyclist launched over handlebars, car barrel roll…
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The Curious Case of the Democrats vs Zuckerberg
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SCARED SNOWFLAKES Harvard students fear Trump more than ISIS
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Trading glitch briefly sets Apple, Amazon and Microsoft stock prices at $123.47 – G-20 watchdog says no letup in correspondent banking decline
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No, Don Lemon, Loretta Lynch didn't recuse herself from the Clinton email scandal
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The Ethnic Instability of Iran
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SEARCH CALLED OFF US Navy ends hunt for 7 missing sailors as bodies are found in the ship
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The biggest — the best…
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Tillerson meets with Dems on Foreign Relations Committee
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Playing the Trump Card in Vietnam
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World’s cheapest jet costs…
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Tom Friedman: Trump's election was another 9/11, Pearl Harbor
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Trump budges on border wall funding, easing shutdown standoff
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UNDER THE KNIFE ObamaCare fix faces makeover by Senate
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Creature lurking off beach
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Obama 'hopeful' this Christmas that 'progress' will continue
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NJ parents reportedly outraged over 5th graders' slave auction poster assignment
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Dutch king reveals his secret life as an airline pilot
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Liberal Outrage Is All about Getting Votes
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Obama warns Trump on briefings: 'It doesn't matter how smart you are'
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Trump says 'making progress' to keep Carrier Corp in U.S.
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A&E alters name of documentary series based on Ku Klux Klan
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Republicans gird for a midterm with Trump, not Obama, at helm
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Laid off over politics?
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Trump has chosen Representative Price for health secretary: New York Times
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Trump team promises to address ethics concerns on businesses
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Meadows elected Freedom Caucus chairman
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Closed White House press briefing livestreamed by rogue reporter
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Are Zionists Worse than Islamists?
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Slavery, White Guilt, and the Politics of Absurdity
Black Lives Matter used the Fourth of July for its denigration of “racist” America. Accusations of American racism typically begin ...
Michelle Obama: Election result was 'painful'
First Lady Michelle Obama told Oprah Winfrey that it was “painful” for her to watch the 2016 election results pour ...
UK police: 58 dead and presumed dead in London blaze – Almost $4 million raised for London fire victims
LONDON – Fifty-eight people who were in Grenfell Tower are still missing and are presumed to be dead, London police ...
Pool float's design raises questions
People have a lot of questions about a pool float being sold by retailers across the country. Questions like, “Was ...
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DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo's life sentence thrown out
A federal district court judge has overturned the sentence of Lee Boyd Malvo, one of the two people convicted in ...
College football player gives up NCAA eligibility for YouTube videos
College football placekicker Donald De La Haye is choosing advertising money from videos on YouTube that he produced rather than ...
Waiting for Garrow: New Obama Biography Due This Week
Those of us who want to reduce President Obama’s future influence in American politics are looking forward to the release ...
WATCH: Pregnant woman runs over purse-snatching suspect in Walmart parking lot
A pregnant woman was caught on video ramming her car into a man she thought was stealing her purse at ...
An Epic Lack of Congressional Fortitude
A few days ago, the Congress passed aid for damage caused by two hurricanes, a three-month continuing resolution, and an ...
The Flag of My Father
In going through my father’s things following his death a dozen years ago, I came across the flag he had ...
Feinstein: Two bills on the way to quash Trump's immigration ban
A Democratic senator says she is working on two bills to strike down President Trump’s executive order that temporarily bars ...
Let the Bad Times Roll
Conservatives did not go around praying for a market crash during the Obama years, but a lot of liberal commentators ...
Trump to announce Court pick within two weeks of inauguration
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Will Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recuse himself on his first day on the job?
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s first day on the high court’s bench is likely to be a T.S. Eliot special: ...
Mom of 3 dies after finishing Pennsylvania half-marathon – Untreated strep infection leaves Michigan mom of 7 battling for life – Family to donate organs of sorority sister who died after pancake-eating contest
Authorities are investigating after a 36-year-old runner died Sunday after crossing the finish line of the Scranton Half Marathon. Medical ...
Two future kings attend Pippa's wedding but no sign of Meghan Markle at the ceremony
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Who Really Started the Trump-McCain Feud?
With Senator John McCain’s recent passing, the Trump-McCain feud has heated up. It’s really a manufactured kerfuffle, as one party is ...
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Senate leader investigating possible FBI deception about Texas terror attack
A powerful U.S. senator has launched an investigation into whether the FBI knew about a planned attack by ISIS-inspired terrorists ...
O.J. Simpson getting July parole hearing date in Nevada
Imprisoned former football star O.J. Simpson has a parole hearing date in Nevada next month, prison officials said Tuesday. State ...
Trump, Russia, and the Red Sparrow
We longtime New Yorkers know full well that Donald Trump is no Russian Connection. But the FBI won’t disavow the infamous ...
Clinton at Trump's inauguration to 'honor our democracy'
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Liberal Lingo: 'Sanctuary Cities'
A sanctuary is a place where people can go to be safe. Generally speaking we think of good people going ...
BELLWETHER: G-20 Ambush: Let's stump Trump
If you think President Trump has enemies in Washington, just wait until he gets to the G-20 economic summit later ...
North Korea: 'Super-mighty pre-emptive strike' will reduce US to ashes – US officials see signs Chinese bombers' alert status changed, but downplay concern
North Korean state media threatened to launch a “super-mighty pre-emptive strike” that would reduce South Korea and the United states ...
Racist Facebook: Black Conservatives Diamond and Silk 'Unsafe'
In the age before cable, there was an iconic sci-fi program called The Outer Limits whose opening featured a series of test ...
Dems fear recounts help Trump, hurt rebuilding plans
Democratic operatives are worried that Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s effort to recount votes in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where Trump ...
Trump enters Charlie Gard debate: 'We would be delighted' to help – OPINION: Trump's tweets boost his foes
The plight of Charlie Gard – the brain-damaged British baby whose parents recently lost a legal battle to keep him ...
Kathy Griffin shaves head
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Seven moves Obama could make on the way out the door
President Obama may have given up on his signature trade legislation, but with President-elect Donald Trump waiting in the wings, ...
Trump singles out 'so-called' judge for 'ridiculous' restraining order on travel ban
President Trump on Saturday escalated his critique of a temporary nationwide restraining order on his executive order barring citizens from ...
Education and the Leftist Creed
I was touched recently by what a young man visiting my office told me. He attends a Catholic high school ...
How to Chart Ronald Reagan's Ascent – and Its Parallels to Trump
Reagan Rising by Craig Shirley fascinatingly charts Ronald Reagan’s rise from the defeat of the 1976 presidential campaign to his ...
CONSERVATIVE CHOPPED Fans wonder if Tim Allen’s show axed over politics
Tim Allen’s hit sitcom “Last Man Standing” has seen its final days. ABC announced it has canceled Allen’s show after ...
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'WATTERS' WORLD' Trump says ObamaCare replacement will be 'terrific'
President Donald Trump expressed confidence in his plan to repeal ObamaCare and blasted his adversaries in the media and elsewhere ...
President Trump's Trailblazing Pro-Israel Actions
Many were waiting for President Trump’s trip to Israel to decide whether Mr. Trump’s pledges of friendship and support for ...
America’s Path to Greatness: Border Adjust Oil
America has been blessed by geology. We have an opportunity to be the world’s low cost producers of oil, gas, ...
Report: Trump, Pena Nieto discuss border wall
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How Does the GOP Win Back Blue States?
My man Kevin D. Williamson is worried that the Republican Party has nothing to say to blue states like California and New ...
Missing teenager's body found in Florida nature preserve; homicide suspected – Murdered teenage girl's body found floating in Dallas creek
A decomposing body discovered by a hiker at a Florida nature preserve last week has been identified as a missing ...
St. Louis sues NFL, teams over Rams relocation to Los Angeles
The city of St. Louis sued the NFL on over the Rams’ relocation to Los Angeles and is seeking $1 ...