The Trump administration on Friday eased up on groups of hospitals and doctors called "accountable care organizations," which were created by the Affordable Care Act, in a regulation that will allow those companies to retain more money if they hold Medicare costs down and keep patient quality high.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court won't let the Trump administration enforce a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. https://t.co/hMJ1GGYdGc
By Josh Gerstein @ Polilico.com, Dec. 20, 6:10 pm ET
A federal appeals court has halted, for now, efforts to use a federal lawsuit to obtain confidential information about how President Donald Trump may be profiting from use of his luxury Washington hotel by foreign governments.
Lots of Cabinet officials -- and I mean LOTS -- have either resigned or been fired by President Donald Trump in his first 20 months in office. But no one has quit in quite the same way as Defense Secretary James Mattis did Thursday night.
Posting this because it made me think. Dagbloggers for the most part are great on sticking to the policies they favor no matter who is supporting them . But it gets at how partisan hatred, or hatred for one man or woman, does have the tendency to blind:
A deal to avert a government shutdown teetered after President Trump told House Republican leaders he would not sign a stopgap spending bill if it does not include border-wall funding.
Conservatives in the House revolted against the Senate-passed bill to keep funds flowing past midnight Friday.
BuzzFeed’s legal defense of its decision to publish the so-called Trump dossier suffered a setback Tuesday night as a federal judge issued a ruling that could make it easier for a Russian internet entrepreneur to prevail in a libel suit against the online news outlet.
[....] The White House confirmed in a statement that the administration has "started returning United States troops home" but emphasized that coalition efforts in Syria would continue. It also reiterated Trump's claim that "the United States has defeated the territorial caliphate." [....]
NYT: Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages, as part of undisclosed special arrangements https://t.co/m5Zaz7P0Lr
I just read that there are several Senate votes on this scheduled tonight, so now's the time to read up (and this CNN piece comes recommended by a retweet by Maggie Haberman):
New York Attorney General announced on Tuesday that the foundation will cease to exist after an alleged pattern of using its ‘charity’ for campaign purposes.
....What’s happened in recent decades, they argue, is that politics in general, and our political parties in particular, have reorganized around these worldviews, adding a new, and arguably irreconcilable, difference into our political divisions....
