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Trump, GOP face urgent decision on health insurer subsidies

The House's passage offered no clues as to what the Trump administration might choose to do with the payments...  Read more

Saying good riddance to Obamacare

Congress doesn't have the luxury of doing nothing, and we hope it follows through in sending something workable to President Trump's desk...  Read more

Cultural appropriation: A modest proposal

"Cultural appropriation" has become the latest evil denounced by soi-disant Social Justice Warriors, on campus and off...  Read more

Another Day, Another $8 Billion for Pre-Existing Conditions

The new Upton-Long amendment isn't the GOP health bill's only funding source for the issue...  Read more

House Obamacare repeal bill faces Senate makeover

The GOP plans to pass the bill using a budgetary tool that blocks a Democratic filibuster...  Read more

How many Republicans does it take to repeal Obamacare?

They don't have anywhere near the votes the Democrats had to pass the healthcare law in the first place...  Read more

No US president should bow or scrape

A meeting with the president is something earned, not given away casually...  Read more

The time has come to restore access to offshore energy resources

The U.S. is now the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas even as carbon dioxide emissions are at 20-year lows...  Read more

McFarland Waiting Out Her Replacement at National Security Council

What's the holdup? Deputy national security advisor K.T. McFarland is waiting to leave the White House to prepare for her new assignment as the U.S. ambassador to Singapore...  Read more

What do Republican centrists want from Obamacare repeal?

Roughly 20 centrist Republicans say they are opposed to a bill that would repeal and replace Obamacare, but few have articulated specifically what would need to be changed in the legislation to bring them to a "yes" vote...  Read more

Trump's takeover of the GOP, one year later

Indiana predicted Trump victory in the presidential election, winning Rust Belt states that hadn't gone Republican since the 1980s...  Read more

Despite majority, House Republicans struggle to govern

House Republicans, bedeviled by mistrust, infighting and influential outside forces, are struggling to advance an Obamacare repeal package and prove that their majority can deliver results...  Read more

The Entrepreneurial Spirit is Alive, Well, and Youthful

By most measures, Will Manidis is like many other American high school students...  Read more

White House Quietly Lobbying House Members on Obamacare Repeal

Pence is leading a gentler push for the AHCA...  Read more

The Wire Act was already restored

The Trump administration doesn't need to restore the act, a 2011 legal opinion already restored did...  Read more

Frustrated conservatives ready to start winning under Trump

Conservatives have been bothered by what they see as a lack of gumption in Republican leadership for over a decade...  Read more

New threat to Obamacare repeal: Republicans from Clinton districts

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce is a new addition to the ranks of the official undecideds...  Read more

Congress uses United incident to crack down on airlines' treatment of passengers

The April 9 incident, in which Chicago Air Police forcibly removed David Dao from a flight from Chicago to Louisville in order to find space for four United employees, upset many lawmakers...  Read more