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AHCA: will it make it? Deals? Amendments? Reagan would have made deal for 70%. Trump needs W. Why couldn't he do taxes first? Budget savings? Parliamentarian? Still technically graft on to health reconciliation.
AHCA: Is medicaid answer for uninsured? How do risk pools work? Tax credits? Insurance rules? 30%? Insurance mandates? Guarantee issue? Essential benefits? 2nd & 3rd buckets? But mandates end, taxes repealed, gov't smaller, pro-growth, pro-healthcare. CBO scorecard?
Trump budget dead on arrival? Programs don't work. Meals on wheels. Community Development Block Grants. EPA. Foreign aid. Big defense $54b. Offsets for 2018, start in 2017.
Art Laffer: How's Trump outlook & performance? Protection, BAT, Taxes, Regs, energy etc. Econ outlook for 2017-18? Rates? Stocks? Assistant OMB director! Trump optimism? Animal spirits? Fed?
Michael Savage: Trump's War: His Battle for America. Populism? Globalism? Protectionism? Wire-tapping?
Merkel-Trump meeting? Mnuchin tell Schauble no trade war & strong dollar.
Stocks flat. Fed rate hike. Jamie Dimon touts repatriation. Q4 profits fell. Atlanta Fed GDPNow 0.9% Q1. Commodities & inflation. |