Tag: Minusextra

Rep Ted Budd believes favoritism is involved in a $418 million arms deal to Kenya being brokered by the U.S. government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

How bad is the defense acquisition system, really?

Rep. Ted Budd · March 7, 2017 11:00 am

House GOP leadership filled in a few blanks on how it plans to replace Obamacare, in a policy brief sent to members Thursday. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)

Beltway Confidential

Republican Obamacare plan signals that liberalism has already won

Philip Klein · March 7, 2017 6:09 am

Politics divides, but business should be about expanding the marketplace. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Do I look fat in this style of politics?

Noemie Emery · March 7, 2017 5:03 am

The return of Rand Paul

W. James Antle III · March 7, 2017 5:01 am

The single best place to carry out counter-terrorism efforts is at our border. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s better order — and the border

Washington Examiner · March 7, 2017 5:01 am

The GOP Obamacare replacement plan would change how tax credits are given out to pay down the cost of insurance. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Who gets tax credits under GOP health plan

Robert King · March 7, 2017 4:12 am

If healthy people shy away from buying coverage, then premiums go up, which makes more people drop out of the market. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Republican plan to attract healthy may be as ineffective as Obamacare’s mandate

Philip Klein · March 7, 2017 4:03 am

Conservatives like Jordan complain that the Ex-Im Bank is a crony capitalist bastion. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Beltway Confidential

Freedom Caucus balks at Republican leadership’s Obamacare replacement

Philip Wegmann · March 7, 2017 3:41 am

Conservative radio host Mark Levin advanced the controversy over President Trump's claim his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped his phones, by saying Obama must have known about the alleged surveillance. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Mark Levin: Obama ‘knew something’ about Trump surveillance, ‘unless he’s Helen Keller’

Eddie Scarry · March 7, 2017 3:34 am

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is holding President Trump's feet to the fire after the top Republican alleged his Democratic predecessor wiretapped his campaign last October. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

McCain: Americans ‘should demand’ Trump prove wiretapping claims

Anna Giaritelli · March 7, 2017 3:20 am

Rep. Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican who is a member of the House Freedom Caucus, tweeted that it was "Obamacare 2.0." (Mike Clark/The Grand Rapids Press/MLive.com via AP)

Conservatives glare at Obamacare replacement

Paige Winfield Cunningham · March 7, 2017 2:33 am

President Trump will meet with Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has consistently criticized his policies. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump set for showdown with Richard Trumka, Lindsey Graham

Anna Giaritelli · March 7, 2017 2:27 am