The Donald Trump Cabinet Tracker
The president’s Cabinet is finally full, as the Senate approved Alexander Acosta to serve as labor secretary on a 60-38 vote.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Republicans Reject Another Obamacare Repeal Plan
The GOP’s options are dwindling after the failure of an amendment that would scrap Obamacare without replacing it. Party leaders are now looking for any plan that can pass.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Senate Republicans Clear Key Health-Care Hurdle
The GOP voted to begin debate on repealing Obamacare, as several holdouts fell in line. What—if anything—the party can pass remains uncertain.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Mitch McConnell's Latest Obamacare Gambit: 'Skinny Repeal'
Republicans are now considering a bill that would only scrap the law’s insurance mandates and some taxes as they struggle to round up votes in the Senate.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The GOP's 'Last Chance' to Replace Obamacare?
A crucial Senate vote to begin the health-care debate is set for Tuesday, but it could fail.
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Richard Brian / Reuters Who Is Anthony Scaramucci?
Like many current presidential advisers, the new White House communications director and former Wall Street financier made a quick pivot from Trump basher to Trump loyalist.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Tries for an Obamacare Repeal Revival
The president bought some more time for the Republican health-care effort, but he hasn’t changed any minds yet.
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Charles Dharapak / AP How VA Reform Turned Into a Fight Over Privatization
Democrats and service organizations worry that a Republican push to expand health-care choices for veterans will sap money from the ailing federal system.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Why the Senate Health-Care Bill Might Never Get a Final Vote
Two Republican critics of Mitch McConnell’s proposal are vowing to block it from even coming to the floor. One more opponent, and it’s dead.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What's Inside Mitch McConnell's Latest Health-Care Proposal
The revised Senate bill would keep more of Obamacare’s taxes while allowing insurers to wiggle out of its regulations. Will Republicans go for it?
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Alex Brandon / AP How to Know If the Republican Health-Care Bill Is Dead
When at least three GOP senators demand bipartisan talks instead of a one-party approach, Mitch McConnell’s proposal will collapse for good. Until then, it still has a chance.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Tries to Revive an Obamacare Repeal Gambit He Once Vetoed
With the Senate bill in doubt, the president suggests scrapping the law now and replacing it later. It won’t work, and it’s less a new strategy than an admission of defeat.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Senate GOP Health-Care Bill Inches Closer to Obamacare
Republicans scrambling for votes are now considering keeping a key tax on the wealthy to pay for expanded insurance coverage, as the legislation moves further away from repeal.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What the Republican Health-Care Holdouts Want
A look at the varied and even contradictory changes that GOP senators are seeking in exchange for their votes
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Senate Republicans Put Off Health-Care Vote
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell bowed to mounting opposition and abandoned a vote planned for this week on legislation to overhaul Obamacare.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP CBO Analysis Endangers GOP Health-Care Bill
The report from the Congressional Budget Office found the proposal would leave 22 million uninsured, seeing little difference in impact from the House-passed American Health Care Act.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A New Penalty for the Uninsured in the GOP Health-Care Bill
Republicans would lock people out of coverage for six months if they go without insurance under a provision added to the Senate proposal on Monday.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Perilous Path Ahead for the Senate Health-Care Bill
The long-awaited proposal begins with few friends and many critics—on the right, the center, and the left. But the chilly reception doesn’t mean the legislation is doomed.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What's in the Senate Republican Health-Care Bill
Like the House version, Mitch McConnell’s proposal would slash taxes, cut Medicaid, and eliminate Obamacare’s insurance mandates for individuals and employers.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP / Katie Martin ... 'We're Amending Obamacare. We're Not Killing It'
The Senate bill coming out Thursday would do many things to health care in the U.S., but it won’t get rid of the Affordable Care Act, and Mitch McConnell won’t claim that it does.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Paul Ryan Fights the Bush Legacy on Taxes
The House speaker is pushing President Trump to embrace permanent reform rather than a quick jolt like the temporary cuts that George W. Bush signed in 2001.
