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10:25 AM ET, April 26, 2017

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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal  —  Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.  —  House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts Members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
House GOP health bill changes exempt members of Congress  —  A new amendment to the Republican ObamaCare replacement bill exempts members of Congress and their staff from its effects.  —  The new changes to the bill would allow states to apply for waivers to repeal key ObamaCare provisions …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House Freedom Caucus leaders back new health-care plan  —  White House officials and several Republican lawmakers claimed Tuesday they were nearing a deal on health-care legislation with the House Freedom Caucus, with at least three leading figures in the hard-line group ready to support …
Discussion: Politico, Hot Air, Shakesville and The Week
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Republicans are still very far from repealing Obamacare  —  It all comes down to turnout.  —  Suddenly, House Republicans sure seem like they are starting to move again on their previously stunted quest to repeal and replace Obamacare.  —  But where that movement is actually heading is not yet clear.
Discussion: Politico and Axios
New York Times:
Trump's Tax Plan: Low Rate for Corporations, and for Companies Like His  —  President Trump plans to unveil a tax cut blueprint on Wednesday that would apply a vastly reduced, 15 percent business tax rate not only to corporations but also to companies that now pay taxes through the personal income tax code …
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump to propose large increase in deductions Americans can claim on their taxes  —  President Trump on Wednesday plans to call for a significant increase in the standard deduction people can claim on their tax returns, potentially putting thousands of dollars each year into the pockets of tens …
Discussion: Vox and The Daily Caller
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Arthur Laffer's Theory on Tax Cuts Comes to Life Once More  —  WASHINGTON — A white cloth napkin, now displayed in the National Museum of American History, helped change the course of modern economics.  On it, the economist Arthur Laffer in 1974 sketched a curve meant to illustrate his theory …
Discussion: Business Insider and The Resurgent
Lynnley Browning / Bloomberg:
Trump's 15% Corporate Tax Plan May Just Be His Opening Gambit
Discussion: Politico
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Ryan likely to get rolled on tax reform
Discussion: ABC News
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Trump has a plan to change the tax code to make himself much, much richer
Discussion: CNBC
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Plans to Seek Tax Rate of 15% on Owner-Operated Companies
Washington Post:
UC-Berkeley readies police as Ann Coulter plans to speak in public plaza on campus  —  The University of California at Berkeley is bracing for massive protests in a public plaza on campus after learning that conservative commentator Ann Coulter plans to give a speech there Thursday afternoon.
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Christopher Wallace / Fox News:
UC Berkeley riots: Violence looms as mayor questioned over ties to extremist group
Discussion: Breitbart
Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
Howard Dean doubles down on support for UC Berkeley excluding Ann Coulter
Discussion: Hit & Run and Townhall.com
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump attacks judiciary for blocking order on sanctuary cities  —  President Donald Trump renewed his attacks against the nation's judiciary on Wednesday, blaming the 9th circuit court system for a federal judge's ruling that blocked his administration's move to deny federal funding to so-called “sanctuary cities.”
Discussion: CNBC and ABC News
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's tax day  —  THE BIG STORY: The tax reform push is shaping up as the purest slice of the Trump agenda yet, an effort, mostly independent of Congress, to distill the president's ideas into a bold legislative concept.  As such, it appears disjointed and haphazard …
Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg:
Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Blocked by Federal Judge
The Huffington Post:
Sen. Mike Enzi: A Guy Who Wears A Tutu To A Bar ‘Kind Of Asks For It’  —  The Wyoming senator was speaking to a group of high school and middle school students.  —  Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) told a group of high school and middle school students last week that it's fine to be a member of the lesbian …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Apparently repealing Obamacare could violate international law  —  We've already seen that repealing Obamacare is politically perilous.  Now there's a new complication: It may also violate international law.  —  The United Nations has contacted the Trump administration as part of an investigation …
Gregory Holyk / ABC News:
Views on Russian influence reflect partisan finger-pointing (POLL)  —  It's a partisan cold war right here at home: A majority of Democrats think now-President Donald Trump's campaign tried to help Russia influence the 2016 election, while a majority of Republicans think former President …
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News anchor joins lawsuit alleging racial discrimination, harassment at network  —  Fox News still under grand jury probe  —  Fox News' legal troubles grew even larger Tuesday, with new plaintiffs, including an anchor, joining a suit alleging racial discrimination and harassment at the network.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Fox News Faces New Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Slow pace of Trump nominations leaves Cabinet agencies ‘stuck’ in staffing limbo  —  President Trump's Cabinet secretaries are growing exasperated at how slowly the White House is moving to fill hundreds of top-tier posts, warning that the vacancies are hobbling efforts to oversee agency operations …
Discussion: Politico and TalkLeft
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:   Zinke to review more than 2 dozen national monuments ‘to make sure the people have a voice’
Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
Full Senate heads to rare classified meeting at the White House on North Korea  —  In an unusual move, all 100 senators were invited to attend a classified meeting later Wednesday at the White House to discuss the North Korea and its growing bellicosity.  —  Congressional aides told Reuters …
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Bloomberg:   State Department Memo Boosts Case to Stay in Paris Climate Pact
Fox News Insider:
Judge Who Blocked Trump Sanctuary City Order Bundled $200K for Obama  —  Federal Judge William Orrick III, who on Tuesday blocked President Trump's order to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities, reportedly bundled hundreds of thousands of dollars for President Barack Obama.
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Amanda Watts / CNN:
Cops use murdered woman's Fitbit to charge her husband  —  (CNN)The attack, as Richard Dabate described it to police, was horrific.  —  A masked intruder barged into his Connecticut home, he said, tied up and tortured him and — when his wife came home — shot and killed her.
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Budget director: Trump would sign a funding bill without wall money  —  Mulvaney: Trump open to bill without wall fund  —  Washington (CNN)With a potential government shutdown set for Friday at midnight, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney confirmed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump would …
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Dean Karayanis / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Looks Like Trump Is Caving on Funding the Wall
Mike Allen / Axios:
Ivanka Trump's new fund for female entrepreneurs  —  Ivanka Trump told me yesterday from Berlin that she has begun building a massive fund that will benefit female entrepreneurs around the globe.  Both countries and companies will contribute to create a pool of capital to economically empower women.
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Magazine
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The biggest story of Trump's first 100 days?  His survival  —  MORE FROM: … Unless the world ends before Saturday, most assessments of President Trump's first 100 days will include a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly.  The emphasis will reveal more about those doing the grading than Trump himself.
 
 
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