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Emily Tisch Sussman is the campaign director with the Center for American Progress Action Fund
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Emily Tisch Sussman
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FROM Emily Tisch Sussman
One Year Later
Ticking clock for Republican fiscal agenda Congress is trying to pass a tax bill, a spending bill, maybe fix DACA and finally continue CHIP, a healthcare program that covers millions of children. But today Congressional Democrats backed out of a scheduled meeting with President Trump, saying they'll negotiate directly with top Republican leaders to avoid a federal shutdown. Is there going to be a government shutdown?
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Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.
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Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
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Replacing Obamacare: Now you see it… now you don’t As the Senate deliberates replacing Obmacare, health coverage for millions of people is at stake. There've been no public hearings, and a draft measure won't be made public. Is the House version so unpopular that that Senate is hiding a version that looks much the same?
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Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.