March 31, 2017
Happy Friday from Washington, where President Trump reaps the whirlwind by blaming House conservatives for the failure of Republicans' Obamacare replacement. They'll keep their promises anyway, Trump's targets tell Josh Siegel. And this isn't what draining the swamp looks like, Genevieve Wood writes. A deal repealing North Carolina's "bathroom law" raises more questions, Rachel del Guidice reports. Plus: Josh Siegel on Trump's style as commander in chief, and Sen. Chuck Grassley on Democrats and the Supreme Court. Careful: Tomorrow is April Fools' Day.
There has never been a successful partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee. A Democrat-led, partisan filibuster would be the first in U.S. Senate history, breaking centuries of precedent, writes Sen. Chuck Grassley.
"Trump's tweets reaffirm that the Freedom Caucus is having a major impact on public policy in Congress—that the Freedom Caucus is not a force to be ignored," says Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.
A legislative compromise watering down North Carolina's "bathroom law" leaves access to public bathrooms muddier than ever, conservative opponents of the change say, and it removes the standard of privacy espoused last year by state officials.
"I have seen a dramatic shift in a very positive way—away from the political micromanaging of the Obama years to freeing up generals and troops to destroy ISIL and help our partners," says Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., of the Trump era.
One year later, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's coalition of Attorneys General United for Clean Power has disintegrated in the heat of its own abusive law enforcement practices.
Here's what you're not hearing from GOP leadership or the White House: Freedom Caucus members wanted to get to "yes." But neither GOP leadership nor the White House would budge on the disastrous Obamacare regulations that are driving up your premiums.
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