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Republicans make desperate bid to save health care bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican opposition to the GOP health care bill swelled to near-fatal numbers Sunday as Sen. Susan Collins all but closed the door on supporting the last-ditch effort to scrap the Obama health care law and Sen. Ted Cruz said that "right now" he doesn't back it.In a late bid to win votes and stave off defeat, Republicans were adding $14.5 billion to the measure for states, according to documents obtained late Sunday by The Associated Press.
White House legislative liaison Marc Short and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of the measure's... Read More
Berliners back call for city's Tegel Airport to stay open
BERLIN (AP) — Voters in the German capital have backed a proposal to keep operating Berlin's Tegel Airport even after the city's much-delayed big international airport opens, officials said Monday.With 2,436 out of 2,439 voting districts in Sunday's referendum counted, officials said a majority of 56.1 percent voted in favor of keeping the airport in the northwest of Berlin open. Some 41.7 percent rejected the proposal, with the remainder of the votes being invalid.
Tegel was meant to be closed six months after Berlin's new airport began service. But the opening... Read More
Trump promising huge tax cut; focus on taxes vs health care
MORRISTOWN, New Jersey (AP) — President Donald Trump is promising "the largest tax cut in the history of our country" that will slash rates for the middle class and corporations to spark economic growth and jobs.Trump says his "primary focus" is the tax overhaul rather than last-ditch efforts to bring a repeal of the Obama health care program. The health care legislation brought forward by Republicans teetered near failure over the weekend, though Trump said "eventually we will win on that."
Trump says the tax plan that the White House and congressional... Read More
Trump trying to turn around GOP holdouts on health bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unwilling to concede defeat on a bedrock GOP promise, President Donald Trump on Saturday tried to sway two Republican holdouts on the party's last-ditch health care hope while clawing at his nemesis who again has brought the "Obamacare" repeal-and-replace effort to the brink of failure.Trump appealed to Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a possible "no" vote, to swing around for the sake of Alaskans up in arms over high insurance costs, and suggested that Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul might reverse his stated opposition "for the good of the Party!"
Arizona Sen... Read More
French marchers fill Paris streets to protest new work rules
PARIS (AP) — French far-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon urged protesters Saturday to take to the streets and mount strikes to force President Emmanuel Macron to withdraw the labor law changes that are key to his business-friendly economic vision.Speaking to tens of thousands in Paris, Melenchon assailed the president's new labor decrees as a gift to greedy corporations and the financial markets that have both fueled income inequality.
Macron, for his part, says the decrees are crucial to creating jobs and tackling France's chronic high unemployment.
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