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28 Jul 2017

Republican senators kill Obamacare repeal bill

It was a night of breathtaking drama, as three Republican senators broke ranks to derail a seven-year effort by their own party to scrap Obama’s healthcare law. Among them, John McCain, who’d delayed his cancer treatment to vote. That would be enough turmoil for most administrations, but not President Trump’s White House. His new communications director Anthony Scaramucci set the headlines ablaze with an expletive-filled tirade to a reporter, much of it directed at fellow White House staff.