Huckabee Denies 'whores' Report

The Republican governor is seeking permission to require some adults to have a job or to enroll in a work-readiness program to qualify for Medicaid.        

“Let me put it this way,. I’m glad that Trump is drawing all the fire so I can get stuff done.” — HUD Secretary Ben Carson, quoted by the Washington Examiner.

New York Times: “The circumstances are eerily similar. In the middle of contentious health care deliberations, a larger-than-life figure in the Senate learns he has a very serious form of brain cancer. A leading voice goes quiet and the Senate suffers for it.” “Such was the case in 2008 when Edward M.

Stuart Rothenberg: “Any bill that gets bipartisan support is almost certain to keep the architecture of Obamacare in place, and that’s a non-starter for many Republicans, who have just spent seven years promising to get rid of it.” “The House must agree with any Senate bill, and the chances of House Republicans doing that are, well, small.

“Steve Bannon has largely disappeared from the White House’s most sensitive policy debates — a dramatic about-face for an operative once characterized as the most powerful man in Washington,” Politico reports. “Bannon, chastened by internal rivalries and by President Donald Trump’s growing suspicion that he is looking out for his own interests, is in a self-imposed exile, having chosen to step back from Trump’s inner circle for the sake of self-preservation.”

President Trump’s “decision to talk off the cuff about the Russia probe to reporters allowed him to put out his version of events-but increased the legal risks to him, as well as to his children and the growing number of associates who have been pulled into the expanding investigation,” Politico reports. “Every public statement by the president or others involved opens a line of questioning for special counsel Robert Mueller or lawmakers exploring the contacts between Trump associates and Russia during the 2016 election.