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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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.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Democrats Stage a Senate Slowdown Over Health Care
They’ll disrupt ordinary business and hold the floor all night for speeches to protest the GOP’s secretive attempt to gut the Affordable Care Act.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Top Republicans Tell Trump: Make Obamacare Work, for Now
With Democrats accusing the administration of sabotaging the health law, two GOP committee chairmen urge the president to continue payments to insurers that could shore up the insurance market.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP How Democrats Would Fix Obamacare
They’ve said if Republicans dropped their repeal demand, they’d be willing to help repair the law. Here are some of their ideas.
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Andrew Harnik / AP What We Know About Trump's 'Tapes' Tease
If they exist, the Secret Service doesn’t have them, and the president still isn’t ready to talk about them.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Trump Says He'd Testify Under Oath About Comey
“One hundred percent,” the president replied when a reporter asked if he’d be willing to contradict his fired FBI director under penalty of perjury.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Senate Republican Calling 'Nonsense' on President Trump
Standing up for Democrats, Charles Grassley is challenging the administration’s policy of ignoring most oversight demands from Congress.
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Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters The Death of Kansas's Conservative Experiment
Republicans in the state legislature on Tuesday voted to reverse Governor Sam Brownback’s signature tax cuts, dealing a blow to the kind of fiscal policy the Trump administration wants to enact nationally.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Are Senate Republicans Really Doomed on Health Care?
By the GOP’s own assessment, passing a bill to replace Obamacare is unlikely, and lawmakers just want the issue out of the way. But don’t count Mitch McConnell out quite yet.
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Kathy Willens / AP Why Trump Wants to Privatize Air-Traffic Control
The president is ditching a big-spending infrastructure plan and embracing a Republican-backed bureaucratic reform that can be done on the cheap.
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Dylan Martinez / Reuters The Trump Administration Issues a Defense of Stonewalling Congress
The White House says that under the law, it only has to respond to records requests that come from committee chairmen—who all happen to be Republicans. Democrats say it amounts to a ‘gag order.’
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Un-Recusal of Devin Nunes
The California Republican supposedly stepped aside from the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation. But on Wednesday, he used his power as chairman to issue subpoenas related to the inquiry.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Upcoming Votes Republicans Are Really Dreading
In the next two months, Congress will have to raise the debt ceiling and pass a budget. GOP leaders don’t know how they’re going to do either of them.
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Alex Brandon / AP Republicans Reckon With a Rushed Health-Care Vote
The Congressional Budget Office’s damning report on the party’s replacement for Obamacare stunned some GOP lawmakers. They shouldn’t have been surprised.
