[AMV] President Trump #289 Nog steeds zonder inreisverbod

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Op maandag 3 april 2017 10:07 schreef antiderivative het volgende:
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2 wijzigingen in de NSC in het Witte Huis, vervangers voor Murphy en Deare:

Senior Director for Africa at the National Security Council

Rudolph Atallah
* CEO of White Mountain Research
* Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Africa Center
* Advisory Board Member of the U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon
* Fmr. Africa Counterterrorism Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
* Fmr. Country Director for Morocco and Tunisia at the Department of Defense
* Fmr. Director of East African Affairs at the Department of Defense
* Fmr. Air Force Defense Attaché for National Security and Diplomatic Missions accredited to West Africa
* Fmr. Director of the Sub-Saharan Africa Orientation Course at the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
* Fmr. Wing Flight Safety Officer and C-141 Aircraft Commander at the U.S. Air Force
* Ret. Lieutenant Colonel of the U.S. Air Force
* Graduate of the Squadron Officer School & Air Command and Staff College, B.Sc. in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Connecticut, M.Sc. in International Relations from Troy University.

Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council

Dr. Rick Waddell
* Distinguished Research Fellow for Defense Policy, Europe, Latin American and Caribbean at the National Defense University Institute for National Strategic Studies
* Senior Director of the NDU Capstone for 1-star Generals and Flag Officers
* Fmr. Deputy Commander for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs at the U.S. Southern Command
* Fmr. Senior Director for European affairs at the National Security Council
* Fmr. Commander of the Combined Joint Interagency Task Force-Shafafiyat in Kabul
* Fmr. Director for Oil and Multinational Forces in Iraq (MNF-I)
* Fmr. Assistant Professor and Course Director for International Relations at the U.S. Military Academy
* Fmr. Managing Director for South America at the BG Group
* Fmr. CEO of Anglo Ferrous Brazil
* Fmr. Company Commander of the 35th Engineer Battalion
* Major General of the U.S. Army Reserve
* Graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, M.A. in Modern History, Modern Languages and Portuguese from Oxford University, Ph.D. in International Relations from Columbia University

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Pence's Obamacare diplomacy fails to yield a deal
Conservatives and moderates say they heard two different things from the White House.

The White House’s latest last-ditch effort to save the GOP’s Obamacare replacement bill hit a brick wall Tuesday night, as conservative and moderate Republicans met and realized they had two very different understanding of the changes sought by top Trump officials.

Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus say Vice President Mike Pence, chief of staff Reince Priebus and budget director Mick Mulvaney sought to win their votes by offering a repeal of major Obamacare regulations during a Monday night meeting. But moderates who met with the same Trump officials hours before were told the changes wouldn’t be as far-reaching.

The discrepancy in what was or was not promised became increasingly apparent throughout the day Tuesday, according to multiple sources across the spectrum of the House Republican Conference.

A late-night huddle with Pence and the leaders of all the GOP caucuses in the basement of the Capitol failed to clarify the issue, leaving Hill insiders speculating whether the White House offered two different potential deals — or lawmakers selectively heard what they wanted.

Republicans plan to meet again Wednesday. But it is unclear where they go from here. It’s also all but certain that the House won’t be voting on a bill to replace the 2010 health care law before the two-week Easter recess.

“There were no agreements tonight in principle, and certainly no agreements in terms of a foundation,” Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said Tuesday night while exiting the meeting. The North Carolina Republican said members had a “good discussion,” but he acknowledged that “there’s a whole lot of things we have to work out in terms of differences.”

The crux of the issue stems from different interpretations about what White House officials — and House Republicans, for that matter — mean when they say they want to retain Obamacare’s protections for sick individuals or those with pre-existing conditions.

Everyone, from President Donald Trump to conservatives to moderate members of the GOP conference, say they want to keep these protections. But they disagree over which Obamacare regulations comprise the fundamentals of that safeguard.

Case in point: Pence told hard-line Freedom Caucus members Monday night that changes to the bill would allow governors to opt out of Obamacare’s “community rating” provision, which prohibits insurers from charging higher premiums to people who are sick, are older or based on their gender. Without it, insurers could charge more to people with cancer or other medical conditions, though supporters say it would drive down premiums for healthy people.

Meadows said they were told governors would be allowed to opt out for “all community ratings with the exception of gender.”

But moderate GOP members who met with Pence the same day say they were under the impression that governors would only receive “community rating” flexibility based on a person’s age — not their illness or other factors. They argue the “community rating” provision goes hand-in-hand with Obamacare regulations that bar insurance companies from rejecting people with pre-existing conditions — and that without it, the pre-existing conditions protections are meaningless because insurance companies could price sick people out of the market by charging them exorbitant premiums.

That’s not the only discrepancy. Some Freedom Caucus members say the White House also floated the idea of letting governors opt out of the law’s “guarantee issue,” which bars insurance companies from turning away sick people. The idea, Meadows said, would be to send such individuals to state-run risk pools where they can get insurance partially subsidized from a $115 billion “stability fund” that would go to the states to help keep premiums down.

“This high-risk pool… is a 100 percent guarantee,” Meadows said late Tuesday. "Guarantee issue happens automatically with this back stop. You guarantee coverage 100 percent of the time. With that, the guarantee issue from an individual carriers point of view becomes a moot point.”

But that’s not at all what centrists said they heard from Pence. Multiple sources said that Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden, who met with Pence, other White House officials and centrist members of the conference Monday, had started drafting legislative text that would only allow the opt-out for age, not everything else. And it would keep the guarantee issue in place, which other Republicans in the conference view as essential in their replacement plan.

Republicans must have realized they had a potential problem; they did not present any text to the broader group Tuesday night. Drafting continues, sources said, though it’s far from clear where it will go next.

"Energy and Commerce has and will continue to provide technical drafting guidance for legislative proposals at the request of the White House and House Leadership,” a panel aide said in a statement. “The Committee will continue to work with all parties as discussions continue on how to best come to a consensus.”

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 09:09 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

Niet normaal... Deze valt wel in de categorie opscheppen over de hoeveelheid mensen op je inauguratie voor het monument van gevallen CIA medewerkers....

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 11:07 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Ja.
Overigens is de rodelijn-uitspraak, en het uitblijven van sancties daarna, Obama's grootste misser geweest in zijn hele presidentiële loopbaan. Dan wil ik hem zijn "belofte" dat Guantanamo Bay zou verdwijnen nog wel vergeven, toen was ie jong en naïef.

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 03:55 schreef monkyyy het volgende:
Het is al even langsgekomen, maar hierbij de officiële statement:

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 15:49 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:
Senator Jeff Merkley is de nominatie van Neil Gorsuch aan het filibusteren.
De beste man heeft de hele nacht doorgepraat en is nu al veertien uur aan het woord.

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 16:03 schreef Linus_van_Pelt het volgende:

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Hoe werkt dit proces precies?

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 16:08 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:

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Van wat ik begrijp zorg je er door te blijven praten voor dat er niet over de nominatie van Gorsach gestemd kan worden.
Een vrij bizar politiek proces.

Maar ik denk dat Monolith dit wat beter kan duiden.

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Talking filibusters have essentially been obsolete since the early 1970s, when the Senate changed its rules to permit more than one bill or matter to be pending on the floor simultaneously. That has permitted the Senate to move on to other business while theoretical “debate” on the blocked item continues indefinitely, although occasionally a senator holds a lengthy talking filibuster anyway to attract attention to an issue.

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 16:13 schreef john2406 het volgende:
SS St. Louis

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 16:18 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:
http://www.rawstory.com/2(...)ouse-on-mexico-side/

Trump-stemmers in grensgebied zijn verontwaardigd dat hun huis aan de Mexicaanse kant van de muur komt te staan.

Mijn sympathieniveau voor deze mensen is ongeveer 0.

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 16:18 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:
http://www.rawstory.com/2(...)ouse-on-mexico-side/

Trump-stemmers in grensgebied zijn verontwaardigd dat hun huis aan de Mexicaanse kant van de muur komt te staan.

Mijn sympathieniveau voor deze mensen is ongeveer 0.

Congratulations, you played yourself.

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 16:18 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:
http://www.rawstory.com/2(...)ouse-on-mexico-side/

Trump-stemmers in grensgebied zijn verontwaardigd dat hun huis aan de Mexicaanse kant van de muur komt te staan.

Mijn sympathieniveau voor deze mensen is ongeveer 0.

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 17:45 schreef Mryc het volgende:
https://twitter.com/camanpour/status/849648475151241217

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 17:45 schreef Mryc het volgende:
https://twitter.com/camanpour/status/849648475151241217

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Op woensdag 5 april 2017 17:56 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:
Bannon blijft uiteraard nog wel gewoon adviseur.