Jan. 9, 2017
It's Monday in Washington, just 11 days until Donald Trump's inauguration. We've got reports on three Trump priorities: creating jobs, securing the border, repealing Obamacare. Josh Siegel examines the president-elect's pressure on the auto industry, and Fred Lucas looks at what it'll take to build a wall. James Wallner warns Republicans against waiting to repeal the health care law, and Melissa Quinn shares two Americans' related struggles. Plus: Melanie Israel on cutting off taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood, and Jason Snead on the left's fickleness about voter fraud.
Holding repeal hostage for replace perpetuates the current market instability, increasing premiums, and coverage losses that have been the result of Obamacare. This poses significant political risks for the GOP.
According to the Center for Automotive Research, of the 11 assembly plants announced to be built in North America since 2009, nine were planned for Mexico.
Since Congress doesn't have to pass a stand-alone bill for the wall, the Republican majority reportedly intends to make it part of an appropriations bill that must pass by the end of April.
Stopping the stream of federal funding to Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, will be part of the upcoming budget reconciliation package, House Speaker Paul Ryan says.
Last year, Warren Jones got a letter notifying him that his monthly premiums would increase from $491 to $716 for 2017.
The left's sudden awakening to the possibility that elections can in fact be rigged is welcome. But their epiphany seems limited only to pie-in-the-sky fantasies that would deprive conservatives of their electoral gains.
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