Texas Judge Rules Obamacare Unconstitutional
A Texas federal judge on Friday ruled that Obamacare violated the Constitution, likely pushing the ruling towards the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
A Texas federal judge on Friday ruled that Obamacare violated the Constitution, likely pushing the ruling towards the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
On Thursday’s Morning Joe panel, MSNBC’s Mark Halperin criticized the GOP’s attempts to pass the down-to-the-wire Graham-Cassidy health care bill by suggesting they are “making many of the same mistakes” former President Barack Obama made to pass the failing Obamacare legislation: being dishonest.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who is running for reelection in 2018, called for greater resistance and political warfare against the Trump administration during a town hall discussion at the Robert Boland Theatre in Berkshire Community College’s Koussevitzky Arts Center in Pittsburgh, Massachusetts, on Saturday morning.
A group of anti-Trump protesters laying in the middle of a San Francisco street for a “die-in” Wednesday got a rude awakening when a man on a red motorcycle drove through the demonstration.
President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that he was “very supportive” of the Senate health care bill unveiled that morning. The text of the bill, titled the “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017,” was made public Thursday, more than a month after the House passed its own bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — White House Principle Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters in the Thursday afternoon briefing that President Donald Trump “wants to bring the stakeholders to the table,” for conversations over the newly released Senate Republican Leadership’s healthcare bill before addressing specific items contained within it.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) gave his weekly press conference Thursday, less than an hour after Senate Republicans released their version of the American Health Care Act.
Vice President Mike Pence delivered an address Wednesday to rally support for the Trump administration at the headquarters of a construction firm in Port Allen, Louisiana.
The Congressional Budget Office report states that under the American Health Care Act (AHCA) 14 million people will lose insurance in 2018, while 23 million would lose insurance by 2026.
A recent Quinnipiac poll reveals that only 21 percent of American voters support the Republican healthcare plan, a slight raise from 17 percent in March.
After brokering a deal on health care in the House, Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows is working on a grand bargain in the Senate.
Monday on ABC’s “The View,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said “it’s offensive,” only male senators are in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) health care working group. Partial transcript as follows: HOSTIN: You know, women stand a lot to lose here
Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield is in the Democrats’ crosshairs, drawing a “Republican” opponent, who sounds more like a Democrat in disguise, exploiting California’s relatively new “top two” primary system.
Democrats working to oppose any Republican-sponsored changes to Obamacare have launched a morbid campaign to fight the GOP’s American Health Care Act (AHCA) by urging supporters to send the ashes of dead relatives to Washington, DC.
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow to highlight five key facts about the GOP’s Obamacare replacement bill on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily.
Vice President Mike Pence spoke at National Small Business Week Awards Program at the White House Monday, calling President Donald Trump “the best friend small business will ever have in the White House.”
In 1981, Baker guided President Ronald Reagan’s big tax cut through the Senate; indeed, later in the 80s, he served as Reagan’s White House chief of staff. Baker liked to say that he learned the secret of politics in the first grade: “I learned how to count.”
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) leadership was called into question by new voices Thursday night as hopes expire of passing a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare before President Donald Trump’s first 100 days end on Saturday.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Monday found growing disapproval of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
The GOP plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is still moving forward, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan confirmed in London Wednesday.
On Saturday, in the wake of the failure of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act (AHCA), President Trump tweeted, “ObamaCare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not worry!”
One day after the American Health Care Act (AHCA) vote was canceled for a second time, Vice President Mike Pence told West Virginians at Foster Supply Company in Charleston that 100 percent of House Democrats and a handful of Republicans were to blame for standing in the way of President Trump’s health care bill, but a report has surfaced that in the final days before passage of the bill, Pence pushed to label the bill “Ryancare.”
In a video message, Kristan Hawkins, who heads the largest millennial pro-life organization in the United States, tells Republicans they are expected to keep their promise to defund Planned Parenthood – “no matter how you have to do it.”
Immediately after the cancellation of the House vote on the American Health Care Act (AHCA), Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards sent out a fundraising email to her supporters, crediting them with stopping the vote on the bill.
Like Trump, Ronald Reagan had his early—and painful—baptism of fire. But the 40th President bounced back and entered into the pantheon of American immortals. Yes, he made mistakes, but he knew how to recover from them, and keep his eye on the agenda ahead. History smiles on such leaders.
At approximately the time that the U.S. House of Representatives was supposed to vote on Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare replacement bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), news broke that the vote had again been canceled.
Vice President Mike Pence opted to stay in Washington, D.C. on Friday, putting aside prior travel plans to promote House Speaker Paul Ryan’s health care bill after a planned Thursday vote on the legislation was canceled.
Idaho Rep. Raúl Labrador – a member of the House Freedom Caucus – says Republicans who are planning to vote in favor of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as it is now are doing so “just because their leadership is asking them to do it.”
On the seventh anniversary of former President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a planned vote on the House Republican leadership’s repeal and replace of the ACA, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), has been canceled.
House Republican leaders doubled down on their defense of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the bill proposed by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to replace Obamacare, despite Congressional Budget Office scoring that said 14 million would almost immediately be uninsured.