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7:05 PM ET, June 26, 2017

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New York Times:
Senate Health Bill Would Leave 22 Million More Uninsured, C.B.O. Says  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026, a figure that is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured …
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CBO's Publications:
H.R. 1628, Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017  —  CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 would reduce federal deficits by $321 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 22 million in 2026 relative to current law.
Ron Johnson / New York Times:
Where the Senate Health Care Bill Fails  —  Speaking at a rally for his wife's presidential campaign last year, Bill Clinton called Obamacare “the craziest thing in the world.”  As he put it, “The people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.”
Dan Diamond / Politico:
CBO score sure to add to McConnell's headaches  —  The budget office is poised to tell Senate Republicans their health bill will leave millions more uninsured than Obamacare.  —  The CBO is poised to tell Senate Republicans this week that their health plan will leave millions more uninsured …
Discussion: ABC News, Axios, The Outline and CBS Philly
The Hill:
Senate adds penalty for going uninsured to healthcare bill  —  Senate Republicans on Monday released a revised version of their healthcare reform bill that adds a provision requiring consumers with a break in coverage to wait six months before buying insurance.
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
This chart shows the stunning trade-off at the heart of the GOP health plan  —  The Republican repeal bills in the House and Senate both include multi-billion-dollar tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and deep health benefit cuts for the poorest Americans.  —  Sign up for VoxCare
Jeanne Lambrew / The Hill:
Budget estimate shows GOP bill is about tax cuts for rich, not healthcare
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Sarah Kliff / Vox:   Page 48 is the most important page in the CBO report
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Huckabee: Senate GOP ‘on the pathway to making some major blunders’ with healthcare bill
Discussion: RedState
Matthew Wisner / Fox Business:
Medicaid will bankrupt every state if we don't have cost controls: Mike Huckabee
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
CBO: 22 million more uninsured under Senate health bill
Discussion: The FADER, Forbes and TheStreet
Deborah Kilroe / CBO's Publications:
CBO to release estimate for Senate health care plan Monday afternoon
Discussion: Politico and Shakesville
New York Times:
Supreme Court Will Hear Travel Ban, Which Is Partly Reinstated  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Trump to prohibit the entry of some people into the United States from countries he deems dangerous, but the justices imposed strict limits on Mr. Trump's travel ban …
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Mark Sherman / AP News:
Trump travel ban partly reinstated; fall court arguments set  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go forward with a limited version of its ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries, a victory for President Donald Trump in the biggest legal controversy of his young presidency.
Discussion: Fusion and Shakesville
The White House:
Statement from President Donald J. Trump  —  Today's unanimous Supreme Court decision is a clear victory for our national security.  It allows the travel suspension for the six terror-prone countries and the refugee suspension to become largely effective.  —  As President, I cannot allow people …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sides with religious institutions in a major church-state decision
Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post:
A ‘very credible’ new study on Seattle's $15 minimum wage has bad news for liberals  —  When Seattle officials voted three years ago to incrementally boost the city's minimum wage up to $15 an hour, they'd hoped to improve the lives of low-income workers.  Yet according to a major new study …
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FiveThirtyEight:
Seattle's Minimum Wage Hike May Have Gone Too Far  —  As cities across the country pushed their minimum wages to untested heights in recent years, some economists began to ask: How high is too high?  —  Seattle, with its highest-in-the-country minimum wage, may have hit that limit.
Economic Policy Institute:
The “high road” Seattle labor market and the effects of the minimum wage increase: Data limitations …
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI has questioned Trump campaign adviser Carter Page at length in Russia probe  —  FBI agents have repeatedly questioned former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page about his contacts with Russians and his interactions with the Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
THIS CHART: Premiums Shoot Up For Older Americans Under Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill  —  The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive think tank, on Monday released an analysis of the effects of Senate Republicans' Obamacare repeal bill on health care premiums.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
American Medical Association: ObamaCare repeal violates ‘do no harm’ rule
Elana Schor / Politico:
Why Dems can't break through on Obamacare repeal
Discussion: ABC News and AOL
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Support for Same-Sex Marriage Grows, Even Among Groups That Had Been Skeptical  —  For first time, as many Republicans favor as oppose gay marriage  —  Two years after the Supreme Court decision that required states to recognize same-sex marriages nationwide, support for allowing gays …
Discussion: NPR, Hit & Run and IJR
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest bizarre tweets about Russia just left him badly exposed  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  In recent days, President Trump has adopted a fiendishly clever new line on the ongoing Russia probes: He will fully acknowledge that Russia did try to sabotage our election …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump believes Russia ‘probably’ behind election hacking
Discussion: ABC News
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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Justice Gorsuch Already Showing Himself to Be Among Court's Most Conservative Justices  —  There was a lot of dissembling when Justice Gorsuch was nominated to the Supreme Court, that he was some kind of blank slate, without preconceived ideas about how he would rule as a Supreme Court Justice.
Discussion: RedState and Above the Law
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Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds
Discussion: NPR, Washington Free Beacon and IJR
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Audiences of Broadway's graphic portrayal of ‘1984’ faint and vomit  —  A night at the theater generally involves dressing to the nines, perhaps dinner beforehand at a nearby restaurant and finally the play.  Fainting, vomiting, screaming and fighting are not typically part of the experience.
Wall Street Journal:
China's All-Seeing Surveillance State Is Reading Its Citizens' Faces  —  In vast social-engineering experiment, facial-recognition systems crunch data from ubiquitous cameras to monitor citizens  —  SHENZHEN—Gan Liping pumped her bike across a busy street, racing to beat a crossing light before it turned red.
Discussion: Axios
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Kushner adds powerhouse lawyer Abbe Lowell to legal team  —  Jared Kushner has hired Abbe Lowell, one of the country's leading criminal defense lawyers, to represent him in the special counsel's probe of potential Russian collusion with the Trump campaign and his financial dealings, as well as in separate congressional inquiries.
 
 
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
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