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President Obama took the gloves off Thursday after getting a look at the Senate version of health care repeal.…

We've got more pictures from this morning's protests in front of Sen. Mitch McConnell's office. Mitch spent last night meeting with lobbyists in his effort to fine-tune a bill that does pretty much every evil thing you might expect it to do, from gutting…

How bad is this Republican wealthcare bill? It is nothing short of vicious. This is a longer thread, but if you are one of the 130 million Americans with a pre-existing condition, if you’ve ever been pregnant or plan to have a family, if you or a loved one…

Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is Because health care works best when it's free market:…

Though Donald Trump throws the term around with abandon, the number of “clean coal” power plants in America today is exactly zero. These entirely theoretical plants, in which carbon dioxide is captured and either piped underground or used for some other…

As our own Joan McCarter predicted earlier, several GOP senators would soon come out against the Senate bill and they would be “lying.” Right on cue:…

A 9/11 recovery worker facing imminent deportation for a nonviolent conviction from over 25 years ago has received a pardon from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, an important step that advocates hope will help keep him in the country after 30 years here.…

Donald Trump wanted a Senate healthcare repeal bill that wasn't "mean," like the House version, and had "heart."…

Donald Trump injects another gallon of coal oil into the Twitter smokescreen he’s throwing up around the GOP Senate’s healthcare-killing bill.…

Well, well, well, look what we have here ...…

As Senate Republicans release their draft Trumpcare bill—you know, the one that’s been the closest-guarded secret in Washington until now—a new poll confirms that the House bill it’s based on is wildly unpopular with the American public. The NBC…

Advocates continue to fight to save an undocumented mother and son, arrested by ICE just one day apart from each other, from deportation to danger. High school student Diego Ismael Puma Macancela was swept up by federal immigration agents the same day of…

Chuck Todd apparently fell off a turnip truck this morning.…

As Mitch McConnell finally surfaces to reveal a “healthcare” bill that rewards the wealthy with tax breaks and promises to kill even more Americans than the “mean” bill from the House, Americans affected by this kill-the-poor bill have gathered around…

The Senate’s draft Trumpcare bill is out, and it’s bad. Andy Slavitt, former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama, detailed just how bad on Twitter.…

Republicans just released the text of their healthcare repeal bill and, at this very moment, they are currently dodging reporters in the halls of Congress so they don’t have to answer for the monstrosity drafted by about a dozen white men entirely behind…

The Senate Republicans' "discussion draft" of Trumpcare—a bill scheduled to be voted on in one week and which has not been available to anyone but lobbyists—is now out. They're calling it the "Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017," presumably implying…

The tax cuts for the wealthy bill masquerading as an Obamacare "replacement" bill destroys Medicaid, the 52-year-old program that covers 1 in 5 Americans, providing coverage from conception to grave. Half of all births, two-thirds of nursing home residents, a…

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.…

"Trump turns an Iowa rally into a venting session," reads the New York Times headline. Which is a polite way of saying Donald Trump spent an hour stoking his ego with bragging and lies, as Maggie Haberman’s story makes clear:…

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At a Senate hearing earlier this month, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and Director of the National Security Agency Mike Rogers refused to answer questions about any conversations they had held with Donald Trump, leaving Senators steaming. But…

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE……

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, and David Beard.…

Wow, yesterday felt like the longest day of the year! I’m exhausted!…

Timmy Morrison, age 6, arrived this morning at the Capitol with his mother and two other families to lobby the Senate.…

Among the now uncountably large list of government functions Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is now in charge of, for some reason: our government's "technology." Something about it, anyway. It's unclear. The job seems to entail throwing a lot of buzzwords…

President Obama has been taking only tentative steps back into the public eye, but former Attorney General Eric Holder is planning to become a lot more visible in his opposition to Team Trump's efforts to gut a half-century of American progress.…

I think we can all agree that Donald J. Trump, self-absorbed cretin with the intellectual curiosity of a soggy dinner roll, neither gives a damn who gets hurt by which funding cuts nor would ever deign to visit any health clinic that he wasn't making personal…

After a campaign of bleating about high drug prices for Americans and how he was going to do ... things ... about that, it turns out that the team of drug industry advocates and insiders Donald Trump assigned to tackle the problem of high drug prices have come…