March 27, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where Republican lawmakers and President Trump have to find a way forward in repealing and replacing Obamacare. Kelsey Harkness looks at relations between Trump and congressional conservatives, Fred Lucas recalls initial disappointments of other presidents, and Ed Haislmaier proposes how to start again. Plus: Lucas on one state's success at taming the bureaucracy, Steven Camarota on the effects of immigration in public schools, and Mike Gonzalez on a liberal media outlet's false choice between Putin and Soros.
Six GOP senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asking him to investigate widespread reports from several countries that Soros' Open Society Foundations are trying "to push a progressive agenda and invigorate the political left."
"It's incumbent upon … the conservatives and the moderates to come together, hopefully in the coming days, to find some consensus," says Rep. Mark Meadows, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.
"A lot of people will say, 'You have to protect the civil servants.' Who gets cut out of the picture when you protect the civil servant? The average citizen dealing with a bunch of bureaucrats," says one former state official.
President Trump's next moves might be some of the most important of his presidency.
As recently as 1980, just 7 percent of public school students were from immigrant households.
The key to the case for repealing Obamacare is the need to undo the law's regulatory takeover of private insurance and reverse its cost-increasing effects.
National Organization for Marriage, which defends marriage as the union of one man and one woman, calls the bus its Free Speech Bus.
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