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Devon and Sarah sit down with the brilliant hosts of Pantsuit Politics, Beth Silvers and Sarah Stewart Holland for their first-ever cross over podcast! They four of them talk about the Graham-Cassidy healthcare mess and how the Russia investigation is starting to heat up.
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Key Articles
- Blue States Face Biggest Cuts Under New Republican Health Care Plan by Haeyoun Park (NYTimes)
- Graham-Cassidy health care bill: What you need to know by Sarah Frostenson (Politico)
- What Graham-Cassidy means for pre-existing conditions by Caitlin Owens (Axios)
- New study shows the Republican healthcare bill would leave up to 18 million more without insurance by 2019 by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)
- McConnell won’t commit to floor vote for last-ditch Obamacare repeal by Seung Min Kim (Politico)
- Three key GOP senators will vote to move forward with Obamacare repeal by Jacob Pramuk (CNBC News)
- There will be a huge number missing from the CBO’s score of the newest GOP healthcare bill by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)
- Exclusive: US government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman by Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz,
and Pamela Brown (CNN) - s Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign by Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman, Carol D. Leonnig, and Adam Entous (WaPo)
- Mueller casts broad net in requesting extensive records from Trump White House by Carol D. Leonnig, and Rosalind S. Helderman (WaPo)
- How to Read Bob Mueller’s Hand by Renato Mariotti (Politico Magazine)
- Mueller Seeks White House Documents Related to Trump’s Actions as President by Michael S. Schmidt (NYTimes)
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Gratitude Check Links
- A Charity Just Rented Out Donald Trump’s Childhood Home For Refugees by Lee Moran (HuffPost)
- OxFam America
- Rhode Island will pay for Dreamers to renew their DACA status by Julia Horowitz (CNN)
- Seven Days of Heroin: This is What an Epidemic Looks Like by Enquirer and Media Network of Central Ohio Staff (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Emerge America – Training Women Leaders for a Democratic Future
Hellion of the Week
BREAKING: Joyce Craig becomes 1st woman in history to win a Manchester mayoral primary #nhpolitics #MHT pic.twitter.com/NDJRufKilM
— NH Democratic Party (@NHDems) September 19, 2017
Twitter Index
My letter to @BillCassidy explaining how his bill uniquely and disproportionally hurts his home state of Louisiana. pic.twitter.com/5re6ETMMiw
— Rebekah Gee (@rebekahgeemd) September 19, 2017
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis shows Graham-Cassidy harms Louisiana financially pic.twitter.com/bYuxhtzPrY
— Rebekah Gee (@rebekahgeemd) September 18, 2017
NEW: What would Graham-Cassidy ACA repeal mean for women?
RT if useful. pic.twitter.com/NRV2ohXyO7
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 20, 2017
Graham/Cassidy keeps Obamacare and tells the states to run it. No thanks.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 18, 2017
Asked McCain about suggestion he may back Graham Cassidy: "I have nothing to say"
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) September 19, 2017
John McCain – still grumpy – says 2 hearings in 2 committees do not satisfy his push for "regular order"#GrahamCassidy
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) September 19, 2017
Sen. Murkowski kicked the door open; she told @LACaldwellDC she could have a convo with Alaskans about it if certain conditions met
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) September 19, 2017
19/ So where do we stand?
They don't have the votes but there are enough on the fence.
They just went home til Monday.
Monday is a big day,— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 20, 2017
For all the talk of aides, one q is clearly driving Mueller to push so hard, so fast: has POTUS himself been compromised by a foreign power.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) September 20, 2017