Ends the "working class $25 gift card from your boss" loophole...! Populism...Republican Style..!

While wealthy investors and business would receive numerous tax cuts — including eliminating the estate tax for all but a tiny sliver of the country’s wealthiest households — the Senate moved to tighten deductions for lower- and middle-income wage earners. The bill, for example, prohibits employers from rewarding employees with gift cards so that a reward of, say, $25 or $50 in the form of a gift card doesn’t escape being taxed.

Not a doctor, a nurse, never provided health care , never took a medical history, consoled a sick patient, never worked in health care, never in a pharmacy or in public health.

Oh, the good news? - "She can take notes...."

Her major claim to fame, beyond being a Trump toadie, she invented the term "alternate facts".

Later Tuesday, Trump trashed Democratic leaders over supposedly undermining military pressure on North Korea by advocating for increased rights for immigrants.

"After North Korea missile launch, it's more important than ever to fund our gov't & military!" Trump tweeted: "Dems shouldn't hold troop funding hostage for amnesty & illegal immigration." 

Fox News incorrectly claimed Sunday that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter had died at the age of 93. It did so while praising another former president, George H.W. Bush, for being the longest-living commander in chief in the country’s history.

"I suppose it's worth the hundreds of thousands of tax payer dollars to keep this moron on the golf course and out of the White House."

Eliminating regs and "accelerating vetting of bonuses to departing Wells Fargo bankers" who are leaving after Wells Fargo created millions of fraudulent accounts set up to bring in fees to boost the banks stock price.

...To rebuild lost trust and win support, future Democrats face the twin challenges of, first, persuading voters that Trump is on track to negatively affect their livelihoods and, second, reclaiming the mantle of working-class hero that every successful Democratic nominee has embraced since vaudeville ruled the stage at the Cresco Theatre.

Once again we are witnessing a sharp uptick in the official word-salad doublespeak used to avoid talking about the Republican party base because the simple and obvious explanation behind yet another repulsive Republican phenomenon -- that fact that Donald Trump did not manufacture the racist meathead base of the GOP but was manifested by the racist meathead base of the GOP -- is too fatally incriminating for the corporate media to permit.

...The provision explicitly allows expectant parents to designate a “child in utero” as a beneficiary of a 529 plan.

Parents have long been able to set up 529 accounts for an unborn child, but the provision accomplishes what anti-abortion activists have long sought: It enshrines into federal law the recognition of the unborn.

A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources briefed on the matter.

The charges are still sealed under orders from a federal judge. Plans were prepared Friday for anyone charged to be taken into custody as soon as Monday, the sources said. It is unclear what the charges are.

 Canadian man who survived getting shot in the head during the massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival has been bombarded with death threats from online conspiracy theorists.

Why do I believe they are almost certainly, avid Trump disciples?

.....there is presently no head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, no head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and no secretaries of the Health and Human Services or Homeland Security departments.

It’s hard to coordinate an interagency response to a public health crisis when you have a bunch of substitute teachers in the classroom.

“The government cannot lawfully make the cost-sharing reduction payments,” the White House said in a statement. It concluded that “Congress needs to repeal and replace the disastrous Obamacare law and provide real relief to the American people.”... Without the subsidies, insurance markets could quickly unravel... Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, praised Mr. Trump’s decision...

Edwards would force Smith to work from dawn until late into the night, seven days a week, with little or no pay, no benefits and no vacation time, Smith alleged. Some days he would leave so exhausted and weak he had to be carried home and “physically fed drink and food.”

Smith described Edwards like a slave driver. He said the manager would call him racial slurs, and threaten to “stomp” his throat and beat him “until people would not recognize him.”

My grandpa is a 97 year-old WWII vet & Missouri farmer who wanted to join w/ those who #TakeaKnee "those kids have every right to protest."...He’s an amazing man always on the side of justice...And his thoughts on Trump? Well, he’s “garbage-mouthed.”

The "Barking Dog" at Alabama Adoration Rally: Trump also said he'd like to see NFL owners respond to players kneeling during the National Anthem by saying: "Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he's fired. He's fired!"

"For a week, (that owner would) be the most popular person in this country," Trump said, "because that's a total disrespect of our heritage... he complained about NFL efforts to enforce penalties designed to prevent concussions. "They're ruining the game, right?" he said. "They're ruining the game."