Update: Senate Republicans have just released their official 142-page healthcare bill.
Here are some initial takeaways from the Wall Street Journal:
- The bill seeks funding for insurers through 2021
- The bill provides tax credits, lowers income eligibility
- Tax cuts on high-income households largely unchanged from House plan
- Bill suspends 'Cadillac Tax' on employer health plans through 2025
Specifically on Taxes:
President Trump is on a warpath this morning, raging against the hyporcrisy of Obama excuse-maker Jeh Johnson's comments. First, Trump asked a tough question...
By the way, if Russia was working so hard on the 2016 Election, it all took place during the Obama Admin. Why didn't they stop them?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017
And then slammed the Democratic Nation Committe's seming ignorance...
In what she has called an "all-hands-on-deck moment for our democracy," Federal Election Commissioner Ellen Weintraub has inserted herself into the fading 'Russia-did-it' narrative demanding the federal government's probe into alleged Russian influence is widened to foreign companies and internet sites that take political ads, like Facebook or the Drudge Report.
Citing petitions from leftist anti-Trump groups...
Corrupt US Senate Pushes America Toward War With Russia And Europe
“The sleazy hypocrisy of US legislators is legendary, but it is their ignorance, greed and arrogance that are worrying.”
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/06/21/ever-closer-war.html
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Embattled Democrats couldn’t catch a break on Wednesday: not only did the party go 0-5 in a series of special elections for the House of Representatives, but the Democratic National Committee disclosed that it raised just $4.3 million last month – its worst tally for the month of May since 2003, when the DNC raised just $2.7 million.
Meanwhile, the party’s bundlers plowed money into the special election campaign of Jon Ossoff, who lost his bid for Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s old seat in Georgia’s 6th Congressional district.