Some wonder why President Trump didn’t take to the campaign trail in friendly states to help pass a Republican healthcare bill and noted that Obamacare might not have passed in the first place without former President Barack Obama applying similar pressure on recalcitrant Democrats.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., announced Monday that he will return to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since being diagnosed with brain cancer, just in time for a key vote on healthcare reform.
President Trump promised to repeal Obamacare and jokingly threatened to fire Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price if Republican senators fail to pass a health care bill in a speech to 40,000 Boy Scouts Monday night.
Recently Democrats have been mocked mercilessly for borrowing their new slogan from Papa John’s. But Republicans were the first to look to pizzerias to fix their problems. After losing a second presidential election to Barack Obama, it was the Grand Old Party who openly copied Dominos.
The Mosul offensive has come to an end. The Islamic State has been militarily defeated and its remnants destroyed within the city. But the Iraqi state’s victory has been marred and diminished.
Bureaucracy won a major battle this week. The battleground was Britain rather than America, but the issue is a universal one, for the battle was over the central government’s right to deprive a patient, in this case a baby, of medical treatment.
At a time of burgeoning federal deficits, lawmakers are increasingly turning to agencies to tighten their belts and cut down on red ink. Agencies, in response, target bloated payrolls, seeking staff reductions to achieve cost reductions.