April 7, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where lawmakers are hearing about changes to the Obamacare replacement bill as they go home for Easter break. Melissa Quinn keeps track. Did Obama aide Susan Rice break the law during surveillance of Trump associates? Josh Siegel asks national security experts. The Senate may not want to make it easier to fire bad VA employees, Fred Lucas reports. Plus: Elizabeth Fender on what’s wrong with those headlines about Obamacare’s popularity, and Hans von Spakovsky on sanctuary for illegal immigrants, California style. Enjoy your Palm Sunday weekend.
President Donald Trump said he ordered the airstrikes in response to the chemical weapons attack Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad carried out on his own people.
Reps. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., and David Schweikert, R-Ariz., members of the House Freedom Caucus, introduced an amendment intended to lower premiums and protect sick patients—criteria that bring together the goals of centrist and conservative Republicans.
Under federal law, government officials such as Rice have broad powers to request and receive information about Americans permitted by eavesdropping rules.
The legislation faces an uphill battle in the Senate despite cases of employees who kept their jobs after misconduct, including a worker who committed armed robbery and a nurse who was intoxicated during a surgical procedure.
CNBC recently published an assessment titled "Big Majority of Americans, Among Them Trump Supporters, Want the President to Try to Make Obamacare Work."
"Literally nothing changed," says a GOP Senate aide. "Starting in 2013, all presidential nominees have needed just 51 votes to end debate."
California might implement a policy that ensures the entire state becomes a sanctuary for dangerous criminal aliens—like Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, the seven-time convicted felon who shot and killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco in 2015.
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