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Obamacare Repeal Reportedly Doesn't Have The Votes, And Other Trump News From Today
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Friday, March 24th. Day 64.
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Top Stories
AHCA vote postponed after appearing set to fail in House
- The latest: The vote has again been postponed and Trump reportedly asked for the bill to be pulled.
- Paul Ryan reportedly went to the White House to tell Trump the bill doesn't have enough votes to pass (and the "No" votes reportedly keep climbing, now at 34), but Sean Spicer says the vote is still scheduled for 3:30 this afternoon.
- After Thursday's planned vote was canceled, the House is again set to vote Friday afternoon. The GOP needs 216 votes to pass the bill, which means they can afford no more than 21 "No" votes from its members — more than 30 are in the "No" or "Leaning No" camp. On Friday morning, Trump took to Twitter to apply pressure to the holdout House Freedom Caucus.
- Last night, Trump reportedly indicated to GOP leaders that if they didn't pass the AHCA on Friday, he'd stop pursuing the repeal/replacement of Obamacare. At the same time, the White House appears to be setting Paul Ryan up for the fall should the bill fail.
- CNN has a good live-blog of the situation.
Keystone XL Pipeline approved
- One of Trump's first acts after being sworn in was to order a review of President Obama's decision to deny a permit to the pipeline. Now that the 60-day review has ended, the State Department has given the project the green light.
The House Intelligence Committee is having a weird day (and week)
- Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee put committee chair Devin Nunes on blast Friday after Nunes canceled an open hearing on the committee's investigation into ties between Trump and Russia. Schiff said to reporters "We don't welcome cutting off public access to information."
- Meanwhile, days after a strange press conference where he said Trump associates may have been "incidentally" surveilled and appeared to give some cover to Trump's wiretapping claim, Nunes clarified to reporters that there was no wiretapping at Trump Tower.
Other Stories
- Michael Flynn, while a Trump adviser, discussed removing Muslim cleric — and thorn in Erdogan's side — from US to Turkey without going through standard extradition channels WSJ
- Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman, volunteers to be interviewed by House Intel Committee Buzzfeed
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