They have a First Amendment right to do that, but nfl owners also have a right to fire those players. Reporter this is all happening just one day after President Trump rescinded his invitation for Golden State Warriors guard steph curry to visit the white house. Now the entire team isnt going, but the hockey team that just won the stanley cup, theyre taking a different approach. Im talking about the Pittsburgh Penguins, they put out a statement this morning that reads, quote the Pittsburgh Penguins respect the institution of the office of the president and the longstanding tradition of championship teams visiting the white house. Any agreement or disagreement with the president s politics, policies or agenda can be expressed in other ways. And, in fact, President Trump tweeted about that very statement and praised the penguins for sticking by the tradition and coming to the white house regardless of where the players stand on politics. But, you know, all of this i hate to use the word
Country . I hope he did write those letters. I hope he does call those Family Members in the coming days. He was wrong to try to make up this just awful lie that President Obama didnt do that. But my concern is more about what it says about future decisions hell make about putting soldiers in harms way. Or point of fact, current kinetic Military Taifd by this nation in places like niger were frankly, senator, i bet if he polled a thousand americans, 999 Couldnt Have told you that the u. S. Had members of the Armed Service theres in harms way in niger. What is going on there . What is striking to me, four americans were killed there, and what do we know about why were there, what the strategy is, what the u. S. Government is doing . Well, listen, to be fair to President Trump, this Counterterrorism Strategy of pushing Special Forces out wherever al qaeda was gaining
president talked about at length today, and i want to ask you, because i have you here and youve been very koch vocal on t
from our own administration mpx wi . with the package of tax bill. saying obamacare was essentially dead. new figures revealed enrollment in obamacare remains strong despite numerous hurdles ahead of the centers for medicare and medicaid certificates. revealed 8.8 million people signed up for insurance on the federal health care exchange during the latest open enr enrollment period. down slightly from last year. new figures come despite numerous heads winds including an enrollment period half as long as previous ones. 90% cut in advertisement. and new attempts by congress to replace the law as well as the president cutting off billions of dollars in cost sharing reduction payments to insurers. following the repeal of the obamacare mandate by the tax plan, mitch mcconnell appears ready to move on from trying to
but those individual taxes run out. there is a timeframe on them. the federal government will collect 669 billion less for corporations between 2018 and 2027 because the taxes on corporations will go down. so everybody making less than 30 grand and i m sorry that i m reading this i want to keep it straight. everyone making less than 30 grand their tax rates won t go up but will pay more on balance as they lose many tax credits and services like medicaid and cost sharing reduction payments. a lot of reductions have been eliminated in the house version of the bill, medical tax deductions, school supply deductions for teachers who pay for school supplies out of their own pocket. deductions for those that are paying off their college debt. a lot of deductions that a lot
help from the federal government. higher premiums. in some cases hikes of more than 30%. now those numbers are rising for middle class people even as people who are less well off and eligible for premiums will see reductions. that s because the value of federal subsidies rises as premiums for exchanges consumer plans rises. insurers raised the premiums after the trump administration said it would stop making cost sharing reduction payments set to total $7 billion directly to insurers. one implications of the move to stop paying csrs, it will pay more in consumer subsidies. premiums for one of the most popular middle class-priced plans on the exchange will increase by 37% for a 27-year-old consumer in states where the government runs the exchanges. report also reveals that declining number of insurance participants down to 132 for