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riversedge's JournalFox Host Jesse Watters Goes On Sudden Vacation After Ivanka Trump Comment
Source: TPM
By Caitlin MacNeal Published April 27, 2017, 8:50 AM EDT
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“I am going to be taking a vacation with my family, so I will not be here tomorrow and Friday,” he said at the end of Fox News’ “The Five. “Try not to miss me too much.”
During the show on Tuesday night, Watters made a comment about Ivanka Trump’s participation in a women’s summit in German.
“You know, the left says they really respect women and then when given an opportunity to respect a woman like that, they boo and hiss,” he said.
“So I don’t really get what’s going on here but I really liked how she was speaking into that microphone,” Watters added while making a fist and holding it up to his face..............
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jesse-watters-vacation-after-ivanka-comment?utm_content=buffer6414f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Wish it were permanent!! He is a smart as with a big mouth-constantly mocks people.
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/857579130703011842
The White House's all-hands briefing on North Korea sounded like it was a disorganized mess
Source: businessinsider
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Donald Trump U.S. President Donald Trump attends the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Days of Remembrance" ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, U.S, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
The entire US Senate was bused to the White House on Wednesday afternoon to receive a much-hyped classified briefing on North Korea — but some Senators emerged from the all-hands meeting unimpressed by the content and the "lack of straight answers" they got from administration officials.
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"What was discussed, I already knew," Corker said, according to BuzzFeed. "I'm not certain I would have had the briefing today, but I do appreciate — you know, they've got a great team that they put together."
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Another Republican Senator told The Washington Post's congressional reporter Ed O'Keefe that the White House did not offer "even straight answers on what the policy is regarding North Korea and its testing of ICBMs [intercontinental ballistic missiles]."
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Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth put it bluntly: "It felt like a dog-and-pony show," she told CNN on Wednesday night. " I didn't get any information out of it that I couldn't get from reading a newspaper."
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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-briefing-on-north-korea-sounded-like-it-was-a-disorganized-mess-2017-4
https://twitter.com/Lawsonbulk/status/857523660747415552
https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/857406535424757765
Sanders did not board the bus (I do not know about anyone not going to briefing).
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/857449467389374464
Donald Trump to strip all funding from State Department team promoting women's rights around the w
Source: Independent
Leaked plan comes as First Daughter Ivanka defends her father's record with
Donald Trump plans to strip all funding from a State Department bureau that promotes the rights of women around the world, it has emerged.
Oxfam America led criticism of the move, saying said cutting funds for the Office of Global Women’s Issues would have “dire consequences for millions of people, as well as our global standing”.
Documents first leaked to Foreign Policy showed plans to reduce the office’s 2016 budget of $8.25 million (£6.43 million) to zero in 2018, though the President’s budget will still have to make it past Congress.
“It’s clear that women’s empowerment and gender equality are on the chopping block in this budget,” Oxfam vice president for policy, Paul O’Brien, said.
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Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-budget-2018-state-department-cut-office-global-womens-issues-oxfam-ivanka-a7701631.html
Trump would do this just to spit in Hillary's face!!
Caroline O.? @RVAwonk 3h3 hours ago
Caroline O. Retweeted AM Joy w/Joy Reid
Hillary Clinton established the Office of Global Women's Issues as Secretary of State. Now Trump is working to dismantle it.
AM Joy w/Joy Reid?Verified account @amjoyshow
#Trump to strip all funding from State Department team promoting women's rights around the world
https://twitter.com/amjoyshow/status/857225427647156224
New Version Of Obamacare Repeal Would Gut Pre-Existing Condition Guarantee
Source: huff post
04/26/2017 12:56 am ET | Updated 7 hours ago
This is better?
By Jonathan
Apparently yanking away the funds that allow millions of people to get health insurance isn’t enough for some House Republicans.
Now they also want to gut the Affordable Care Act’s protection for people with pre-existing conditions.
Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) on Tuesday formally unveiled an amendment to the American Health Care Act, the bill to repeal Obamacare that Republicans tried to get through the House last month. The amendment, which HuffPost’s Matt Fuller first reported last week, is the product of negotiations among key Republicans, including Vice President Mike Pence.
A main goal of the proposal is to win over conservative House members who last month opposed the GOP repeal bill because, in their view, it still left too much of the 2010 health care law in place. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, helped to craft the amendment. And although he has not yet declared support for it publicly, a few other conservatives have signaled they may be ready to switch from no to yes.
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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/24/politics/kfile-mike-pompeo-wikileaks/index.html
If you have not called your Rep and Senators today, please do so now-leave a message. Thanks in advance.
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New version of Obamacare repeal would gut the pre-existing condition guarantee http://huff.to/2pxZq1S
https://twitter.com/HuffPostPol/status/857231813189799936
https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/857361480894869504
https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/857264811939434498
House GOP is going to be whipping votes on a revised TrumpCare bill tonight that nobody's really rea
Good god!! This is horrible! Very few know what it in the bill! Please get on the phone with your Senators and Reps--Your Representative for sure!
**One thing we know--The House bill gives "flexibility" to the states--therefore The red govs will gladly take away what they can!
igorvolsky?Verified account @igorvolsky
1. It's amazing to me that House GOP is going to be whipping votes on a revised TrumpCare bill tonight that nobody's really read or debated
igorvolsky?Verified account @igorvolsky 2h2 hours ago
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2. The more the GOP changes TrumpCare, the worse the bill becomes for us all but especially FOR THE VERY PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP
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igorvolsky?Verified account @igorvolsky 2h2 hours ago
3. Republicans control 32 legislatures and 33 governors, they'll pull out of the ACA protections and millions will be denied coverage
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igorvolsky?Verified account @igorvolsky 2h2 hours ago
4. But Republicans clearly don't care that they'll be screwing over their own voters, leaving them uninsured w/ no way I pay for health care
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igorvolsky?Verified account @igorvolsky 2h2 hours ago
5. They are setting up a vote/whipping the revised TrumpCare bill with .... 
0 hearings
0 hours of debate
0 analysis from CBO on impact
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igorvolsky?Verified account @igorvolsky 2h2 hours ago
6. GOP doesn't care how TrumpCare will impact people. There're not interested in slowing down/finding out. It's all about political points.
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Jonathan Boucher?Verified account @jonbouch 2h2 hours ago
it's all about cutting taxes for the rich
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lawhawk? @lawhawk 2h2 hours ago
Replying to @igorvolsky
Or scored. The CBO/JCT has yet to weigh in. That's on purpose too. The GOP doesn't want ppl to know damage it'll do to nation.
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Rachel Maddow MSNBC?Verified account @maddow 9h9 hours ago
Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/857224562584543232
ICYMI: Justices Say E.P.A. Has Power to Act on Harmful Gases
We have an EPA that is hostile to science--as is the Trump Administration.
"The court further ruled that the agency could not sidestep its authority to regulate the greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change unless it could provide a scientific basis for its refusal."
Justices Say E.P.A. Has Power to Act on Harmful Gases
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/washington/03scotus.html?smid=tw-share
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
APRIL 3, 2007
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Car and truck tailpipe emissions account for about one-fourth of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Credit Alden Pellett/Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 2 — In one of its most important environmental decisions in years, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate heat-trapping gases in automobile emissions. The court further ruled that the agency could not sidestep its authority to regulate the greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change unless it could provide a scientific basis for its refusal.
The 5-to-4 decision was a strong rebuke to the Bush administration, which has maintained that it does not have the right to regulate carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases under the Clean Air Act, and that even if it did, it would not use the authority. The ruling does not force the environmental agency to regulate auto emissions, but it would almost certainly face further legal action if it failed to do so.
Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said the only way the agency could “avoid taking further action” now was “if it determines that greenhouse gases do not contribute to climate change” or provides a good explanation why it cannot or will not find out whether they do.
Beyond the specific context for this case — so-called “tailpipe emissions” from cars and trucks, which account for about one-fourth of the country’s total emissions of heat-trapping gases — the decision is likely to have a broader impact on the debate over government efforts to address global warming..........
https://twitter.com/_VickiePatton/status/848543585288937472
Dems to fund over $1 billion in border security as long as it doesn't directly to to Wall
Congress set to deny Trump wall money
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/25/budget-deadline-unresolved-issues-237580
Lawmakers and the White House are eager to step back from the brink of a government shutdown.
By Burgess Everett , Jennifer Scholtes and Tara Palmeri
04/25/17 11:24 AM EDT
Updated 04/25/17 04:33 PM EDT
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But Trump is also aware that fully backing down at this point could embolden Democrats who are clamoring for a commitment to permanently fund Obamacare’s insurance subsidies, according to one person involved in spending bill negotiations. Democrats are likely to receive no better than a temporary patch to keep those funds flowing to low-income Americans, which will cost about $7 billion this year. Trump’s administration has threatened to cut off those funds as a condition for getting his wall funding.
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Congress “will ramp up border security money with additional fencing and security measures short of the great wall,” said the official. “Then push for wall money in the fall.”
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"I hope this is not the case. But it looks like, from here, right here, right now, it looks like President Trump is caving on his demand for a measly $1 billion in the budget for his wall on the border with Mexico," said Rush Limbaugh.
By Tuesday afternoon, Democrats were ebullient about Trump's newfound flexibilty. Democrats are, however, willing to send more than $1 billion in border security to Trump, as long as it doesn't directly fund the border wall..................
https://twitter.com/politico/status/856913728268369921
President Trump just had his bluff called again
Stay strong Dems. Friday evening is a long ways away in political time.
Ted Lieu?Verified account @tedlieu 4h4 hours ago
How do you deal with a bully? You stand up to him. #TuesdayMotivation
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/856897504801157120
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/25/president-trump-just-had-his-bluff-called-again/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_wallstrategy-835pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.578b1be2f920
President Trump just had his bluff called — again
By Aaron Blake April 25 at 8:03 AM
Trump may delay push for wall funding to avoid shutdown
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President Trump is backing off his demand to include border wall funds in the new spending bill this week, as the April 28 deadline to avoid a government shutdown nears. (Reuters)
For the second time in two major legislative battles, the Trump White House has issued an ultimatum — only to back down.
In the health care debate, the president was going to force a House vote on the package and dare skeptical Republicans to vote against replacing Obamacare, before abandoning that plan in the face of defeat.
And now, in the government funding debate, he's backing off his previous demand that Congress approve funding for his border wall. As The Washington Post's Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and David Weigel report:...............
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Had a second packed TownHall tonight in Redondo Beach. They still don't like
This Lieu is a little stinker--but love him.
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Ted Lieu?Verified account @tedlieu 16h16 hours ago
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Had a second packed Town Hall tonight in Redondo Beach. They still don't like you. #ImWithTed 
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