United States

• U.S. Republicans left scrambling after health bill sinks again (Reuters); Republicans Give Up on Health-Care Reform, Now Seek Straight Repeal (BBG)
• Trump Blames Democrats and a ‘Few Republicans’ for Health-Bill Wreck (BBG)
• House Republicans Set Out Plan to Rewrite Tax Code (WSJ)
• House GOP Budget Ignores Trump’s Cuts to Domestic Agencies (BBG)
• House Republicans unveil 2018 budget with tax reform instructions (Reuters)
• UK inflation unexpectedly falls and eases rate-hike fears (AP)

Bulletin headline summary from RanSquawk

With tuition costs rising more than twice as quickly as consumer prices, a generation of recent college graduates are struggling to strike out on their own, burdened by a $1.4 trillion pile of debt that ineligible to be erased by the tonic of bankruptcy protection. Tuition costs have been blamed for nearly all of the ills facing the millennial generation. The rate at which re cent graduates are moving back homme with mom and dad has never been higher, with nearly a third retreating back to the basement as they struggle to jobs with adequate pay.

Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

The «Monthly Harvard-Harris Poll: June 2017» is the latest poll in that series, and it scientifically sampled 2,258 U.S. registered voters, of whom (as shown on page 30) 35% were «Democrat», 29% were «Republican», and 30% were «independent»).

It indicates (page 24) that 37% «approve» and 63% «disapprove» of «the way the Republican Party is handling its job».

 

As Republicans sit on the precipice of fumbling what will likely be their one opportunity to repeal and replace America's failed Obamacare experiment, a new study just released by The Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S., despite spending more money per capita than any other country on the planet, has the worst healthcare system in the developed world.