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Taxes Can Make 'Medicare For All' More Popular — Or Less
There's a lot at stake in the debate over how to pay for "Medicare for All."
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Republicans Try To Storm Impeachment Room, Break Rules In Process
Lawmakers bumrushed a secure room while carrying their cell phones, ignoring House rules.
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Democrats Target Part Of The GOP Tax Law That Hurt The Rich
They want to restore a legal dodge around the law's cap on state and local tax deductions, which notably hit blue states.
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Some Kids Would Lose Free School Lunches Under Trump Proposal
One of Trump's several behind-the-scenes food benefit cuts has a spillover effect on children.
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What Constitutional Crisis? Democrats Still Following 'Path To Yes' On Trade Deal
Democrats don't think the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal should get tangled up in impeachment.
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Democrats Get Bogged Down In Same Gotcha Tax Question At Every Debate
Several candidates ganged up on Elizabeth Warren for not giving a more direct answer on taxes.
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The Worst Debate Question
Why Democrats have no good answer for a gotcha question about taxes.
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Lead Pipes Are Safe From The EPA's New Drinking Water Rule
The regulation that was too weak to stop the Flint water crisis is getting some mild improvements -- but lead pipes can stay.
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Treasury Watchdog Opens Investigation Into Handling Of Trump Tax Return Request
The inquiry could eventually reveal if the administration failed to follow regular procedures after Congress requested the president's tax records.
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The Impeachment Story Is Simple. Republicans Are Trying To Confuse You.
GOP leaders desperately want to lose you in the arcana of process and take attention away from what the president did.
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HUFFPOST HILL - House GOP Wishes Zika Victims Would Stop Being Such Takers
Donald Trump keeps saying we don’t have any good trade deals, but tell that to the guy in Massachusetts who just got a penis transplant. Trump and David Cameron are in the midst of a trans-Atlantic feud, exhibiting the sort of intra floppy-haired-white-guy hostility usually only found during a prep school lacrosse match. HARRY REID FUNDRAISING OFF SPAT WITH ALAN GRAYSON - Amanda Terkel: "Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was unusually candid about his feelings toward Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) in a fundraising appeal for Grayson’s Senate opponent.
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HUFFPOST HILL - D.C. Metro Announces Last-Minute Metaphor For Our Failing Politics
Trump-inclined voters lurched America ever closer to some ponderous “Draft Scarborough” Medium posts that’ll crop up around June’s Aspen Ideas Festival. DONALD TRUMP IS THE FLORIDA MAN CANDIDATE - Eliot, who's in the Sunshine State covering the primary, sends this dispatch: "There are a lot of reasons why Donald Trump is expected to triumph in Tuesday's Florida primary... But there's a very crucial one that shouldn't be overlooked: Trump is Florida Man … well, the candidate for that type of voter, at least. Just switch [Trump's] name for Florida Man and you'll see what we mean: Florida Man purchases a private jet and enjoys watching Jean Claude Van Damme's 'Bloodsport' while airborne.
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HUFFPOST HILL - Happy Pi Day, Our Political System Is Breaking Down
Rosie Gray and McKay Coppins: "Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and editor-at-large Ben Shapiro are resigning from the company over the site’s handling of Donald Trump’s campaign manager’s alleged assault on Fields, BuzzFeed News has learned. Fields and Shapiro informed Breitbart News chair Steve Bannon of their decision Sunday night.
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HUFFPOST HILL - Dope Versus Pope
Donald Trump got in a fight with the Pope, since it would be P.C. to go soft on the Vicar of Christ on Earth. Marco Rubio didn't show up for work when he was in the Florida legislature, either, which demonstrates the kind of consistency we need in a president.
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HUFFPOST HILL - Man Named 'Killer Mike' Offers Problematic Gender Politics Sentiment
John Boehner struggled to get Republicans to cut deals with Democrats, but Paul Ryan is one-upping him by struggling to get Republicans to agree on an imaginary budget blueprint that defunds ACORN. Paul LePage said asylum-seekers could bring "the ziki fly" into the United States, which is a type of fly that impregnates white women. OBAMA MAKES BOLD GAMBIT TO SHAME THE SHAMELESS - The most powerful tool the president possesses to pressure Senate Republicans to at least pretend to consider his Supreme Court nominee is public shaming.
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HUFFPOST HILL - Jeb Bush Has Gun, Confidence
Republicans have asked President Obama not to nominate a replacement for Antonin Scalia, and also to consider their request to just stop being president and let someone else have a turn. Donald Trump is talking an independent run again, the GOP is preparing for a brokered convention, and this is all going to end in tears. OBAMA BEGINS SEARCH FOR PERSON WILLING TO ENDURE A LIVING HELL FOR UP TO 11 MONTHS - Just because our system of government is a smoldering ruin doesn't mean Obama can't nominate somebody to succeed the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
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HUFFPOST HILL - Paul Ryan Wondering Where Boehner Hid Emergency Cigs
Veterans groups haven't received any of that money Donald Trump said he raised for them, though Trump said he got a deferment because of some problem with his foot. John Kasich and Jeb Bush are having a huge fight over Medicaid, and it's just kinda sad because what they're basically fighting over is which one will get called a pussy by The Donald. WATCH CORPORATE AMERICA TURN A ROOMFUL OF WORKERS INTO SANDERS AND TRUMP SUPPORTERS - Zach Carter and Ryan Grim: "The past few years have been very good for United Technologies.
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HUFFPOST HILL - Marco Rubio Literally Disintegrating
Marco Rubio broke his tooth on a Twix, though at press time it was unclear if it was the Left Twix or the Right Twix. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both want you to know some of their best friends are black. SNACK DELIBERATELY WEAKENED MARCO RUBIO'S TOOTH - In an unfortunate incident that Marco Rubio's manufacturer should have anticipated when choosing what to build his teeth from, the GOP establishment's favorite android suffered his biggest setback Wednesday since all those other ones.
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HUFFPOST HILL - New York's Got Your Values Right Here, Pal
Lindsey Graham endorsed Jeb Bush this morning, giving Jeb just the kind of establishment credibility boost he'd been looking for. Ted Cruz said Donald Trump has "New York values," which Trump then proved true by making a Texan look foolish.
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HUFFPOST HILL - GOP Is A Big Tent Party, No Cover For Ladies
President Obama promised he'd deliver a shorter-than-usual State of the Union address, but he didn't, because if you like your long speech, you can keep it. Steve King said Nikki Haley's not "a principled conservative" but it doesn't matter because she's "beautiful," since being principled means compromising for superficial reasons. APOLOGYGATE - Barbara Starr, Tom LoBianco, Holly Yan and Jim Sciutto: "A video aired Wednesday by Iranian state television shows an American sailor apologizing for entering Iranian waters, an embarrassing development for a U.S. administration trying to paint the service members' quick release as a diplomatic victory.