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Following President Trump's clarifying tweet yesterday that "Obamacare will explode" on its own...

ObamaCare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not worry!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 25, 2017

It is becoming increasingly clear that, even without the 'repeal', the Trump administration has already begun using its regulatory authority to water down less prominent aspects of Obamacare.

Via Global Macro Monitor,

OK, comrades, let’s check our partisanship at the door and deal with some real analysis on the health care bill that just went down in flames. Here are a few of our thoughts on why the Trump/Ryan healthcare bill to repeal and replace Obamacare went down and some economics behind it...

1)  Most important, the bill had no support throughout the country.   The latest poll released Thursday afternoon showed that only 17 percent of the country supported the plan.

A senior US military commander has warned that North Korea are now capable of striking Alaska with nuclear missiles and has urged the government to increase military spending in the state.  Speaking before Congress’ Joint Armed [...]

According to senior Pentagon officials, US troops will stay in Iraq even after the fight against ISIS has ended. The US Defense Secretary James Mattis said that keeping soldiers on the ground is in America’s [...]

Following two days of utter chaos in Washington D.C., the Republicans in the House have finally called it quits and laid to rest, at least for now, efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.  The bill was pulled shortly before voting was set to begin at 3:45PM EST.