GOP health-care plan: Trump supports Medicaid expansion phaseout in 2020, White House spokesman says; How many people would lose health-care coverage under the new House bill? Depends who you ask.; A conspiracy site with White House press credentials revives a debunked birther story; The mystery of Donald Trump and the New Jersey cemetery; How President Trump’s first jobs report looks on the ‘real’ metrics he touted in 2016; Here’s how the Drudge Report splashed job reports for Obama that were better than Trump’s; What Trump got wrong on Twitter this week (#7); The Daily 202: Trump team taking more and more credit for Obama successes; Trump and the media: How unusual is the president’s treatment of the press?; Robots aren’t killing the American Dream. Neither is trade. This is the problem.; Trump keeps claiming he’s created U.S. jobs since Election Day. Not so.;
 
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The media's day: Yelled at, goofed on, joined by a conspiracy website.
GOP health-care plan: Trump supports Medicaid expansion phaseout in 2020, White House spokesman says
Following President Trump’s meeting with House GOP leaders, press secretary Sean Spicer said, “Right now the date that’s in the bill is what the president supports.”
 
How many people would lose health-care coverage under the new House bill? Depends who you ask.
The answer is very important politically.
 
A conspiracy site with White House press credentials revives a debunked birther story
The Gateway Pundit is hoaxed once again.
 
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The mystery of Donald Trump and the New Jersey cemetery
What does the president’s business want with a cemetery (or two) in Bedminster?
 
How President Trump’s first jobs report looks on the ‘real’ metrics he touted in 2016
Forty percent unemployment, 94 million out of work.
 
Here’s how the Drudge Report splashed job reports for Obama that were better than Trump’s
Drudge's celebration of the jobs numbers from Trump's first full month looks a bit different.
 
What Trump got wrong on Twitter this week (#7)
The seventh installment in our occasional feature looking at what Trump got wrong on Twitter in a given week.
 
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The Daily 202: Trump team taking more and more credit for Obama successes
From jobs reports to missile batteries, the White House repackages old news and declares victory
 
Trump and the media: How unusual is the president’s treatment of the press?
How unusual is Trump's behavior toward the media? Media columnist Margaret Sullivan weighs in on that question and on what's at risk for American democracy. Plus, WHCA president Jeff Mason shares what it's really like to be a member White House press corps.
 
Robots aren’t killing the American Dream. Neither is trade. This is the problem.
"Good” jobs are being shifted from the interior to the coasts. So what should the U.S. do now?
 
Trump keeps claiming he’s created U.S. jobs since Election Day. Not so.
Trump’s bravado on these jobs announcements is becoming a bad joke.
 
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