March 2, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump proposes "merit-based" immigration and services to those victimized by illegal immigrants. Fred Lucas unpacks the first and Josh Siegel explores the second. What's wrong with the new Obamacare repeal bill? James Wallner explains. Plus: Ryan T. Anderson on liberals who falsely cry "discrimination," Diane Katz on protecting taxpayers from EPA spending, and Kelsey Harkness with a video report in which Newt Gingrich uses a skating rink to explain Trump's get-it-done style. Fun is good: It's Dr. Seuss Day.
The reality is that Obamacare cannot be repealed and replaced simultaneously. Here's why.
Back in the 1980s, Donald Trump rescued the city of New York by repairing and renovating the iconic Wollman skating rink in Central Park. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recalls how it happened.
Current sexual orientation and gender identity laws, promoted as anti-discriminatory, are being used to shutter Catholic adoption agencies, fine evangelical bakers, and force businesses and public facilities to allow men into women's locker rooms.
In memos last week, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly wrote that victims of crime committed by illegal immigrants "are often not provided adequate information about the offender, the offender's immigration status, or any enforcement action taken by ICE against the offender."
President Trump is calling on lawmakers to repeal and replace Obamacare, and reform the health care system to "expand choice, increase access, lower costs, and at the same time, provide better health care."
"Ample research shows that immigrants admitted for employment are more likely to be self-sufficient, an economic plus, and on balance less of a fiscal burden," says Center for Immigration Studies' Jessica Vaughan.
The environmental lobby is in high dudgeon over a reported 24 percent proposed cut to the EPA's $8 billion budget.
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