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Health bill collapse
Confidence 5/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
The latest version of the Senate Republican health bill got the same brutal verdict as the earlier one: 22 million more people uninsured by 2026. The score undercut GOP claims that the rewrite had fixed the bill’s biggest problems, and it showed the party was still trying to sell a health plan that shifted costs downward coverage upward into the wrecking ball. For Trump, who had spent the week pushing Republicans to get something done, it was another reminder that slogan politics does not change math.
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Russia subpoenas
Confidence 5/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
The Senate Judiciary Committee said it was ready to force Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort to show up if they refused an invitation to testify about the Trump Tower Russia meeting. That put the president’s son and former campaign chairman squarely in the path of a public hearing and deepened the sense that the Russia inquiry was no longer a background nuisance but a formal congressional grind. The immediate consequence was procedural, but the political damage was obvious: more scrutiny, more documents, and more questions about who knew what and when.
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