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President Donald Trump and Republicans will score an historic victory by likely passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act this week, the largest tax cut legislation in decades.

To turn his low approval numbers around, in Alabama and elsewhere, Trump will likely need to “pivot” — that is, if he wants to be re-elected (and he may, some speculate, be satisfied with one term). The question is what that pivot will be, and when it will happen.

Among the many factors in Democrat Doug Jones’s victory over Republican Roy Moore in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama on Tuesday, one has been curiously ignored: namely, Jones’s focus on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

The loss of the Senate seat that once belonged to Attorney General Jeff Sessions will not stop Republican tax reform efforts. To the contrary, those efforts will likely be accelerated.

GOP Senate candidate from Alabama Judge Roy Moore summed up his view of what is needed in America: faith in God and understanding and adhering to the Constitution.

Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones argued at a rally over the past weekend that “We’ve got to quit playing political football” over whether to repeal Obamacare. Jones’ Republican competitor Judge Roy Moore said that he will “vote to repeal Obamacare.”

The San Francisco Bay Area, as America’s most liberal metropolitan area is about to be economically carpet bombed by the President Donald Trump’s tax reform.

Tax cuts will blow up the deficit. They’ll all go to the wealthy. Grad students will be bankrupted. Sounds scary. Except none of that is true.

Hollywood stars jumped on social media late Friday night and into early Saturday to fume and forecast the end of America after the Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Saturday.

Going all the way back to 2009, it was obvious Obamacare would end up looking like a Rube Goldberg machine powered by totalitarianism. Who would have ever guessed, though, it was such a fiasco that the mandate would actually cost the government money — a delicious irony that would result in its undoing.

The Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Saturday, which serves as one of the final steps for Congress to pass historic tax legislation.

The GOP tax overhaul looks increasingly likely to win enough votes to pass in the Senate after Senator John McCain said he supports the bill.

Senate Republicans are pushing to pass their tax overhaul legislation this week. On Tuesday, the Senate budget committee will consider the bill.

Speaking to an overfilled crowd at the Henagar Event Center, senatorial candidate Roy Moore vowed to go to Washington, DC, to defend the Constitution while working to repeal Obamacare, reduce illegal immigration, oppose abortion, strengthen the U.S. military, and support President Trump’s legislative agenda.

Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones said that repealing and replacing Obamacare is just a slogan.

President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday that Republicans will repeal and replace Obamacare after they pass a tax reform package.

Here are five things Americans should know about Obamacare for the Thanksgiving political dinner conversation.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) revealed in an op-ed on Tuesday that she supports a repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate.

Lawsuits by the states of California and Pennsylvania against the Trump administration’s new religious liberty rule have sent the Little Sisters of the Poor back into court to defend their right to adhere to their faith beliefs.

Last week, the US House of Representatives passed the most sweeping tax reform plan we have seen in decades. As with everything in politics, the policy nuts and bolts were a series of trade-offs.

Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker has signed a bill into law that, save for churches, forces employers in the state – regardless of their religious or moral convictions – to provide free birth control to workers.

Top Trump administration officials indicated that while the president still backs repealing the Obamacare individual mandate, the administration would accept a tax reform package that left the mandate in place.

The Republican Party is in deep trouble for the 2018 midterm elections, less than a year away. All of the signs point to a “wave” election for Democrats, in spite of the booming economy and high consumer and business confidence.

When is a tax cut considered a tax hike? When you work for Congress’s official tax scorekeepers apparently.

The Obamacare mandate is a brutal tax that increases the deficit and almost exclusively targets the working and middle class. It must be repealed.

Thursday, November 16 marked 300 days since President Donald Trump took office on January 20. And the Trump administration seems, at last, to have found a rhythm.

Senator Tom Cotton deserves credit for bringing Republicans around to a daring, controversial, and politically brilliant idea: repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate through the Republican tax overhaul.

Yes, the Obamacare issue is ba-a-ack. Congressional Republicans could, in fact, be voting on the fate of the program — formally known as the Affordable Care Act — within days.

Raising the child tax credit to $2,000 and eliminating the individual mandate makes this a tax bill populist conservatives can support.

Rand Paul Tuesday took up President Donald Trump’s challenge to Republicans to include the repeal of the Obamacare individual-mandate in their tax overhaul legislation.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a motion Thursday to put a stop to President Donald Trump’s decision to protect employers of faith and with moral convictions from the Obama-era contraceptive mandate.

Republicans can turn their political prospects around in time if they deliver on at least some of their promises, allow insurgent campaigns to flourish, and warn voters about “Speaker” Nancy Pelosi.

A new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report revealed that over three-quarters of new Obamacare signups are actually renewals.

One year after the fateful 2016 presidential election, the Republican establishment continues to “fall like dominoes” to populist pressure from President Donald Trump’s base that wants to enact the president’s agenda.

Just one week after the announcement the University of Notre Dame would be ending its insurance coverage of free contraceptives, the school did an about-face and informed employees and students that birth control would still be provided to them without cost.

Republicans should simplify the tax proposal, focusing on the reduction in the corporate tax rate, while repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate and ending tax benefits for employers who hire illegal aliens.