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From the start, Trump has muddied a clear message: Putin interfered

July 19, 2018

Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election.

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Trump struggles to explain Putin posture as zigzag worries aides

July 19, 2018

The White House struggled for a second straight day on Wednesday to explain President Donald Trump’s posture on Russian election meddling, and some administration officials are concerned there may be no shaking public perception that Trump is too coz

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Trump’s Russia spin falls flat with GOP

July 19, 2018

The more President Donald Trump talks about Russia, the more Republicans cringe.

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Republicans force Democrats to go on record over immigration agency

July 19, 2018

House Republicans claimed a political victory Wednesday after the House voted 244-35 in favor of officially supporting the U.S.

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Ryan scraps ‘abolish ICE’ vote

July 17, 2018

Speaker Paul Ryan quashed a rank-and-file effort to force Democrats to take a politically toxic vote to abolish the federal government’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, sources familiar with the matter told POLITICO.

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July 13, 2018

A conversation with Robert Costa.

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Democratic push to investigate Russia stymied by partisan acrimony

July 19, 2018

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee thought they had scored a coup in their efforts to continue investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election: Trump aide John Mashburn had agreed to answer their questions.

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Republicans force Democrats to go on record over immigration agency

July 19, 2018

House Republicans claimed a political victory Wednesday after the House voted 244-35 in favor of officially supporting the U.S.

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In rebuke to Trump, senators may vote to side with US intel community

July 17, 2018

Talks have begun on Capitol Hill to reaffirm support in the Senate for the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered in the US elections, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn told CNN on Monday evening.

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Trump’s New Plan to Dismantle Obamacare Comes With Political Risks

June 9, 2018

After failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act with a Republican-controlled Congress, the Trump administration is seizing on a different strategy for dismantling the law, one fraught with political risk.

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Congress has quietly created a new health care crisis for 26 million Americans

February 3, 2018

Last fall, Kim Wagenaar started to plan how she would close the health clinic she runs in rural North Carolina — when Congress let funding lapse for thousands of centers like hers 124 days ago and counting.

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Explaining the new Medicaid work requirements

January 19, 2018

Robert Costa discussed the latest details in the Russia probe with The Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig and Mark Mazzetti from The New York Times, broke down the new Medicaid work requirement with Reid Wilson from The Hill, and recapped President Trum