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<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: A House Divided

The failed health-care bill, investigative dysfunction, artificial intelligence, and more
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AHCA’s Debacle: This afternoon, having failed to gather enough support among Republicans, Paul Ryan withdrew his bill to replace Obamacare. Backing off from their key campaign promise marks a big defeat for both Ryan and the president, who’d pushed hard for the bill and then pressed for a vote on it. Trump is now presenting himself as a bystander to the loss, and Republican voters. So, now what? on what foreshadowed the bill’s failure, and ahead to how conservatives should shape American health policy.

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