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Stephen Colbert believes Republicans in the House “kicked America in the balls” with their passage of the American Health Care Act on Thursday.

Every singe Republican member of the state’s congressional delegation voted for the American Health Care Act on Thursday, helping the legislation to squeak by on a narrow 217-213 vote.

Pop icon Cher took to Twitter Thursday to blast the House’s passage of the American Health Care Act, lamenting that the bill’s signature into law would threaten to cut funding to treat her asthma.

Standing in front of a host of Republican House lawmakers gathered for a victory lap in the Rose Garden on Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump declared that passing the American Health Care Act would be an “unbelievable victory when we get it through the Senate.”

Republican leaders and President Donald Trump celebrated a legislative victory Thursday as the House passed the American Health Care Act, which, if it clears the Senate and is signed into law, will repeal former President Obama’s signature achievement, 2010’s Affordable Care Act.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) argued the revised American Health Care Act is “the first time that Republicans have affirmatively put their stamp of approval on a program where federal money,

The March for Life issued a statement on Thursday praising the passage of the American Health Care Act in the House — legislation that, if it becomes law, would defund Planned Parenthood Federation of America and other abortion providers for one year.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said the revised version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) that is expected to be voted on Thursday is a “‘craven” and “cruel” piece of legislation that will “cost American

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney says he believes states are better suited to address the opioid epidemic, on a local level, than applying a “federal, one-size-fits-all” approach to a drug addiction problem that has swept the nation.

In 1981, Baker guided President Ronald Reagan’s big tax cut through the Senate; indeed, later in the 80s, he served as Reagan’s White House chief of staff. Baker liked to say that he learned the secret of politics in the first grade: “I learned how to count.”

By historical standards, Trump has led a very active presidency thus far, stunning his opponents with a battery of executive orders, but facing stiff “resistance” from the opposition and the courts. Here are the five best moments — and the five worst.

There is only one way to change Congress’s incentives, and that is to change the default option — to make sure Obamacare is repealed, whether or not Congress comes up with a plan to replace it.

The Democrat-controlled California legislature held its first hearing Wednesday on the state adopting a single-payer health care system, nationalizing $287 billion of health care spending for 24 million residents.

President Donald Trump, posed the question whether he would choose to pass healthcare reform or government funding through Congress next week, said he wants both.

This week Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin blamed a delay in healthcare reform for likely pushing the “aggressive timeline” for President Donald Trump’s tax reform back until after congress’ August recess.

Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows met with the Vice President late Monday after which he told reporters the caucus was “intrigued” at an offer to give states an option to waive two provisions of Obamacare.

Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks told reporters attacks by President Donald Trump and other members of the White House staff upon members of the House Freedom Caucus and fellow Republicans during the recent fight over the star-crossed American Health Care Act have hurt his relationship with the American people.

Politico reported Thursday that President Donald Trump, chastened by his experience pushing for the failed Ryancare bill, is moving forward on tax reform with is own economic team in the lead–not Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI):

Virginia Republican Rep. Dave Brat told reporters in the Speaker’s Lobby just off the House floor Tuesday afternoon that he and other members of the House Freedom Caucus are meeting soon with members of the group of moderates known as the Tuesday Group about reviving the Ryancare bill.

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) told reporters after he met with the the House Republican Conference Tuesday that House Republicans have not given up trying to rescue the Obamacare regime created by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich told reporters Monday that if moderate House Republicans reach out to Democrats they could form a parliamentary majority that could break the current gridlock in Congress.

An ally of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) breached protocol when he accused Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, of working in league with House Democrats to protect the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare.

Democrats and “progressives” who gathered at a town hall in the San Francisco district of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Friday pressed her to revive the “single-payer” option for national health care — i.e. a government-run system.

President Trump addressed the failure of the Obamacare replacement bill for the first time on Twitter after Congress pulled the bill from the House floor.

Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore says Republican lawmaker’s failure Friday to pass a bill to repeal Obamacare opens the door for Democrats and progressive pressure groups to rev up their opposition to President Donald Trump’s agenda.

On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks criticized the American Health Care Act as a bill “like, out of ‘1984,’ which devastated the poor, $880 cut out of — $880 billion cut out of Medicaid, while enriching

On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated, “I was trying to think of a president who had a worse week.” Brooks said, “Well, I was trying to think of a president who had a worse week.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that the House Freedom Caucus proposed changes to the American Health Care act to make the bill “more attractive to psychopaths.” Maher said, “It is amazing what happened during

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that the American Health Care Act’s defeat was a philosophical victory for President Obama, and “The country has changed. There is now the generalized expectation that

Exactly two weeks ago, this author predicted the defeat of the American Health Care Act — and explained that it was a step towards the final, actual deal that will repeal and replace Obamacare.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said on Friday that the centerpiece of the Republican’s plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is a massive tax cut for rich people.

President Donald Trump singled out members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus for refusing to support Paul Ryan’s bill to replace Obamacare.

The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) spoke to Breitbart News on Thursday after his meeting with Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and three senior aides to President Trump. The topic was the final attempt to modify the American Health Care Act before the House vote on Friday.

Gabriel Sherman writes that White House chief strategist and former Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon has privately expressed concern that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) betrays the populist voters who put Donald Trump in the White House.

The No. 2 House Democrat told Breitbart News late Thursday House Republicans will suffer at the polls no matter how they vote for the American Health Care Act, the health insurance industry rescue program crafted by Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-WI).

While speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill about the American Health Care Act after the GOP’s meeting on the bill on Thursday, Speaker of the House Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) stated, “tomorrow, we’re proceeding.” Ryan said, “We have been promising