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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) talks on his phone outside the Senate office buildings on Capitol Hill.

GOP’s Plan B for Obamacare repeal began with quiet push from Koch network

August 21, 2019 at 11:58 p.m.

President Trump's surprise suggestion Friday that deadlocked Senate Republicans shift their focus to simply repealing Obamacare — and worry about replacing it later — has its roots in a Koch...

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, with Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., by his side addresses reporters about the health care legislation on June 27, 2017.

Hopes fade for Friday revise of Senate Republican health care bill

August 21, 2019 at 11:57 p.m.

Senate Republicans appeared unlikely to hit a self-imposed Friday deadline for revising their health care bill, as negotiators considered scaling back promised tax cuts for the wealthy in order to...

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, speaks amid a crush of reporters after Republicans released their long-awaited bill to scuttle much of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 22, 2017. She is one of four GOP senators to say they are opposed to it as written which could put the measure in immediate jeopardy.

Key GOP senators say they may block Senate health care bill

August 21, 2019 at 11:55 p.m.

The Senate Republican health care bill ran into serious trouble late Monday when key GOP senators indicated they may block the Obamacare overhaul from proceeding to a vote this week.Political...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill.

Republican secrecy faces mounting criticism as senators work behind closed doors to repeal Obamacare

August 21, 2019 at 11:47 p.m.

Senate Republicans are facing increasing criticism for ducking public scrutiny as they craft legislation to roll back the Affordable Care Act with little input from outside experts, patients, physicians and...

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C. listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2017, during opening remarks at the committee's hearing on major threats facing the U.S.

Not the tweets, the Russian issue or Comey’s firing: So what will it take for Republicans to break with Trump?

August 21, 2019 at 11:22 p.m.

They fume privately at President Trump's coziness with the Russians. They wince almost every time he tweets. They talk among themselves about what might have been with a different Republican...

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan with other Republican leaders.

White House will continue Obamacare payments, defusing a potential obstacle in talks to avert shutdown

August 21, 2019 at 11:08 p.m.

One potential obstacle in the negotiations to prevent a government shutdown was averted Wednesday when the White House announced it would continue — at least for now — to provide...

President Donald Trump speaks during a working lunch with ambassadors on the U.N. Security Council on Monday, April 24, 2017 in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Trump wants a border wall, but few in Congress want to pay for it

August 21, 2019 at 11:05 p.m.

It's an open secret on Capitol Hill: President Trump wants a "big, beautiful" border wall, but few in Congress are willing to pay for it. The standoff, between the White...

Jodi Muerhoff, left, and Julia Kozel organized a Trump resistance group in Kenosha, Wis.

Trump’s election has mobilized resistance, but will it divide Democrats?

August 21, 2019 at 11:04 p.m.

She knew to hold her tongue during a business trip to Chicago the night Donald Trump was elected, and endured a long evening of schmoozing with the other sales reps...

Gorsuch set be confirmed to Supreme Court, but will the fight over Trump’s pick break the Senate?

August 21, 2019 at 10:51 p.m.

The Senate has been called dysfunctional, outdated and downright broken. But the anticipated showdown over President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, just might inflict damages...

The Freedom Caucus roars back to relevance to challenge Trump’s agenda and strategy

August 21, 2019 at 10:46 p.m.

When House Speaker Paul D. Ryan pulled the plug on the GOP's Obamcacare overhaul, lawmakers spilled out of the Capitol basement, angry, frustrated and stunned. But Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.),...

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