- Most of the House Freedom Caucus members agreed that they wouldn’t commit to voting for the ObamaCare Lite bill without first consulting the entire group — a ploy to prevent Paul Ryan and Donald Trump from picking them off one by one. Ted Poe announced today that he’s resigning from the Freedom Caucus.
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Daniel Horowitz wrote a satire on the ObamaCare Lite vote: “The Freedom Caucus Owes GOP Leadership an Apology”:
Congressman Mark Meadows, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, is really naive.
You see, when all Republicans running for office ran incessant ads during the past four election cycles promising to fully repeal Obamacare, Meadows actually thought they meant it! What a fool.
Later:
Meadows, along with a few of his compatriots, didn’t seem to get the memo: that this was all a joke. Who do they think they are? Amelia Bedelia? Doesn’t he know they only meant to repeal the funding mechanism of Obamacare to make it more insolvent?
- During a private meeting, Donald Trump reportedly handed Angela Merkel a bill for more than £300 billion, supposedly the amount Germany has failed to spend on defense per a NATO agreement. Trump is all about class and tact.
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Amir George offers an interesting perspective on America’s role in the world:
Just think of Afghanistan, or Syria or Africa or Indonesia or the Philippines – the list goes on and on – each place where America went to bind up the wounds of war, help after a natural disaster, treat people for illnesses and more.
Do not listen to those who say that America needs to withdraw from the world because all we get is criticism for the good we do.
Now is not the time to withdraw from the world, but to love, support and build a hurting and needy world that simply needs to know there is hope.
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One of the organizers of the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., Rasmea Odeh, is being stripped of her U.S. citizenship and deported to Jordan. Odeh failed to disclose on her citizenship application that she served time in an Israeli prison for committing two terror attacks. As part of a plea bargain Odeh is avoiding jail time in the U.S.
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British police arrested another person in connection with the Westminster terror attack.
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Carrie Lam will become Hong Kong’s new leader on July 1. Leaders in Hong Kong are selected by a 1,200 member “election committee” that’s stacked with pro-Beijing types.
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Police arrested hundreds of protesters across Russia, including opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Thousands of people turned out to demonstrate against corruption, the largest such protests since 2012. The protests were sparked by a film produced by Navalny that claims Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has made out like a bandit while in office.
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Syrian Democratic Forces seized control of a former Syrian military airport at Tabqa. They also captured the town of Karama.
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