1 Fears for Tom Price as health secretary
Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Tom Price, one of Congress’s staunchest opponents of abortion, as health and human services secretary has drawn immediate condemnation from reproductive rights and public health groups.
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2 The problem facing the GOP
How could we simultaneously keep our promise to repeal and replace the [Affordable Care Act] without leading to millions of newly uninsured folks, without facing a political backlash because of those newly uninsured folks?
– Professor Michael Sparer, chair of health policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, on Tom Price’s big challenge
4 'Unconstitutional' to ban flag burning
Except, as the White House pointed out, flag burning is protected in the constitution under the first amendment.
“The vast majority of Americans, myself included, find the burning of the flag offensive but we have a responsibility as a country to carefully protect our rights that are enshrined in the constitution,” said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
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5 Trump's team takes shape
A stream of people poured in and out of Trump Tower for meetings, including former vice-president Dan Quayle (he served under George HW Bush), Rolls-Royce CEO Marion Blakey, MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski and possible secretary of state pick Bob Corker.
Donald Trump plans to nominate former labor secretary Elaine Chao for transportation secretary.
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6 Former presidents don’t back Trump, but VPs do
When quizzed by a reporter on why neither former Bush president backed Trump, VP Quayle replied that he had. Trump aide Kellyanne Conway added:
As did Vice-President Cheney, the two Bush vice-presidents.
7 Catch Clinton in the forest
A new Twitter account called HRC in the Wild curates Hillary Clinton’s cheery selfies with strangers, while on hikes in the woods of New York or browsing in local supermarkets.
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