In a long career as a maverick Republican, it may have been John McCain’s defining moment. Donald Trump and his Republicans had rejoiced when the cancer-stricken senator returned to Washington this week to vote on health care. But the feisty elder statesman and long-time Vietnam prisoner of war — once a target of Trump’s scorn … Read more
US Republicans failed spectacularly Friday in their latest effort to dismantle Obamacare, leaving the party in stunned disarray and President Donald Trump’s dreams of repealing his predecessor’s health reforms on ice. The vote — held in the dead of night — came down to the wire, with the decisive moment resting with Senator John McCain, … Read more
US Republican efforts to reform health care neared collapse Thursday as three senators threatened to oppose a partial repeal of Obamacare unless House leaders pledged to negotiate further — the latest in a series of setbacks. The sudden announcement by Senators Lindsey Graham, Ron Johnson and John McCain threw into disarray their party’s years-long effort … Read more
US Republican efforts to reform health care hit the skids Thursday when three senators threatened to oppose a partial repeal of Obamacare unless House leaders pledged to negotiate further, leaving a vote on the measure in doubt. The sudden announcement by Senators Lindsey Graham, Ron Johnson and John McCain threw their party’s effort to overhaul … Read more
Reinvigorated US Senate Republicans on Wednesday resumed their marathon effort to uproot Obamacare, but what their health legislation may ultimately look like remained a question mark. Senate leadership, emboldened by a critical vote Tuesday which allowed the chamber to begin debating health care, intends to pass a bill this week that fulfills President Donald Trump’s … Read more
Senate Republicans vote Tuesday on the latest effort to repeal Obamacare, in the face of withering criticism from President Donald Trump — and confusion over whether they even have the votes to move forward. Trump has spent weeks cajoling, strong-arming and warning Republicans to get on board with his effort to overhaul his successor’s health … Read more
US President Donald Trump has issued a challenge to Republican senators to rally behind their healthcare bill, on the eve of a crucial vote. “Now is the time for action,” President Trump said in a rare healthcare speech. A procedural vote is due on Tuesday as Republicans push forward in their attempt to repeal President … Read more
John McCain, the Arizona senator and former Republican presidential candidate, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. A brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was removed from McCain along with a blood clot in a surgery at the Mayo Clinic on Friday, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. McCain’s office had only previously announced that the blood … Read more
An angry President Donald Trump railed Tuesday against dissenters in his party who dashed his months-long effort to dismantle his predecessor’s landmark health care law, as moderates balked at Republican plans to scrap Obamacare without a replacement. With several efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) now squashed, the Senate’s top Republican … Read more
Two more US Republican senators announced their opposition Monday to their party’s efforts to revamp Obamacare, derailing the controversial legislation in its current form and potentially dealing a monumental setback to President Donald Trump. Republican leaders are desperate for a major legislative victory this year — and keen to fulfill Trump’s campaign pledge to dismantle … Read more
The future of the Republican effort to squash Obamacare hung in the balance Monday with Senator John McCain, whose vote is needed to pass the legislation, recovering from surgery away from Washington. There are no votes to spare in the contentious effort to pass a new health care reform bill through Congress, where Republican leaders … Read more
Final score: Republicans 14, Barack Obama’s last-minute regulations, one. Congressional Republicans anxious to show voters they can get something done are hailing their reversal of more than a dozen Obama-era regulations on guns, the internet and the environment. Over a few months, lawmakers used an obscure legislative rule to ram through changes that will have … Read more
Despite a non-existent constitutional dictate of measuring performance or otherwise in the first hundred days of any regime, there have evolved a convention for 100 days’ assessment. The objective of this first 100day assessment is to ‘Look how far we’ve come.’ That is the aim of the 100-day retrospective, to assess our new leaders after … Read more
The US Senate prepared to take its most consequential step in years with the procedural vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick. Democrats made last-minute pleas against changing rules to ram through the nomination of Neil Gorsuch. But Republicans are keen to get Gorsuch elevated to the nation’s highest court to fill the … Read more
How should the United States honor the wishes of the last American World War I soldier, who asked for a national monument to the country’s role in the conflict? The answer is more complicated than it seems. Frank Buckles, who was a teenage ambulance driver in the Great War, was dismayed to discover on a … Read more
A new, Republican-controlled U. S. Congress convenes on Tuesday eager to repeal major portions of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law and roll back environmental and financial industry regulations, but could quickly become embroiled in fights over President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet choices. Despite his promise to unite a deeply divided country, Trump will be sworn in … Read more