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Presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway asserted Sunday that the Senate health care bill does not propose cuts to Medicaid, despite projections that it would cut the federal health insurance program by $800 billion. “These are not cuts to Medicaid," Conway said to ABC News Chief Anchor Obamacare expansion, you are grandfathered in.

Senate Democratic Leader middle class and unite Democrats. "Here’s the number one lesson from Georgia Sixth," Schumer said in reference to the Democratic loss in the special election last week in Georgia's Sixth District outside Atlanta. "Democrats need a strong, bold, sharp-edged and commonsense economic agenda -- policy, platform, message that appeal to the middle class...and unite Democrats," the Senate minority leader said. "I think if we come up with this strong, bold economic package, it will ...

Sen. Senate bill “isn’t anywhere close to repeal.” “What we can do is if they cannot get 50 votes, if they get to impasse, I've been telling leadership for months now I'll vote for a repeal," Paul said. "And it doesn't have to be 100 percent repeal. So, for example, I'm for 100 percent repeal, that's what I want. But if you offer me 90 percent repeal, I'd probably would vote it.

For the first time in over two decades, the White House did not host an Iftar or Eid celebration dinner to mark the month of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month when Muslims fast during daylight hours. Hosting an Eid celebration or an Iftar dinner – the nightly meal when Muslims break their fast during Ramadan -- had been a White House tradition since 1996, when then-first lady Hillary Clinton hosted the first Eid dinner there. Iftar dinners inviting prominent members of the Muslim community to break their fast at the Whi

Amid speculation that Supreme Court Justice President Trump or the White House has heard from the justice about his plans. “I will never reveal a conversation between a sitting justice and the president or the White House,” Conway told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” Sunday. The Supreme Court’s last day before summer recess is Monday, and there is specula

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON (AP) — Making a final push, President Donald Trump said he doesn’t think congressional Republicans are ‘‘that far off’’ on a health overhaul to replace ‘‘the dead carcass of Obamacare’’ and signaled that last-minute changes were coming to win enough support for passage. GOP critics expressed doubt over a successful vote this week. ‘‘We have a very good plan,’’ Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories President Trump said he thinks Republicans are “going to get there” in passing a health law, despite a lack of support from several GOP senators.   In a new strategy, White House officials on Sunday said the Obama administration was to blame for not taking action against Russian election hacking.   ‘‘I have very serious concerns about the bill,’’ said Susan Collins, the Republican senator from Maine.

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Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories CAPITAL SOURCE Walsh campaign spokeswoman Rachel Goldstein said — as the campaign had previously — that the payments to the law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo have nothing to do with the ongoing federal probe, which led to the indictments of two of Walsh’s department heads (both have plead not guilty).