May 16, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where the Supreme Court's refusal to hear a voter ID case puzzles conservatives. But, court watcher Hans von Spakovsky argues, the situation isn't dire. President Trump will confer with South Korea's new leader in the wake of North Korea's latest missile test. A leading Senate conservative has ideas to improve the Obamacare replacement bill, and House members ask the attorney general to review the actions of a notorious IRS official. Plus: Genevieve Wood on reasons to celebrate the new day at the EPA, and Melanie Israel on Trump's move to prevent taxpayer funding for abortions overseas.
Obamacare's Medicaid expansion is a program that has given insurance cards to 11 million able-bodied adults without kids at a cost of $64 billion a year without improving their actual health care outcomes, writes Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.
The Supreme Court isn't ruling on whether the appeals court was correct in its assessment of the North Carolina voter ID law. (It wasn't.)
"With a new administration—one that hasn't prejudged the issue—these allegations [against Lerner] deserve a fresh look," says Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says the agency needs to do a much better job of respecting individual states and the rule of law, and promoting policies that are pro-jobs, pro-growth, and pro-environment.
"China and Russia will not put the level of necessary pressure on North Korea, only the Trump administration [will]," says a foreign policy expert.
The new policy ensures that U.S. dollars aren't entangled with the abortion industry overseas and that taxpayers don't subsidize groups with no respect for innocent human life.
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