- The Republican health care bill passed the House 217-213 today. This was upsetting to just about everybody who wasn't voting for it, and I hope that each and every congressperson who voted for it pays with their job.
- Not convinced it's terrible? Let me fix that.
- It's not the end of the world yet, though. This thing has a snowflake's chance in hell of passing the Senate, which has declared that it's going to write a completely new bill from scratch. The reconciliation will be ugly.
- There was a big Republican shindig celebrating that they'd taken the first steps to shred the health insurance of at least 20 million Americans. Political veterans were describing it as the most disgusting thing they'd seen in politics.
- Note that included in the bill was a clause to deny federal medicare/medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. Paul Ryan thinks that women should just go to the dentist instead.
- Note also that congresspeople get to keep all the perks of Obamacare. Just not the rest of the country.
- There is still no Congressional Budget Office score of the thing. It's going to be nasty when we see it. Having no CBO score is NOT NORMAL. NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL.
- We will make them pay.
- New Executive order, aimed at loosening rules for religious institutions to engage in political activity (full text). While not quite so bad as had been rumored, this is still aimed at promoting Christian supremacy and legalizing discrimination under the guise of religion.
- Pence is so proud that the White House is filled with anti-abortion leaders.
- The Senate passed the spending bill, averting a shutdown.
- Border agents are telling families seeking asylum that the US no longer accepts asylum seekers. Awful, awful, awful.
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