<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: West Wing Woes
What We’re Following
Obamacare Survives: The “no” votes of three Republican senators—John McCain, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski—brought down Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan for a “skinny repeal” of the Affordable Care Act. The proposal failed by a margin of just one vote, and McCain’s was the biggest surprise: Critics had denounced him for putting partisanship first in a vote to proceed in debate on the legislation yet his final rejection of the measure suggests his loyalties are in fact to process and civility. Now, some Democrats say they’re ready to work on a bipartisan plan for health-care reform. And as Republicans try to move forward from a drawn-out failure, David Frum outlines 10 challenges they’ll face.
President Trump with John Kelly, the retired Marine general who is secretary of homeland security. The news comes just a day after Trump’s new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, and threatened a thorough shakeup of the West Wing staff—a chain of events that of the team Kelly is about to join.
