Mid-day Update

08/16/2017: The price tag of letting Obamacare fail

Sabri Ben-Achour Aug 16, 2017
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Mid-day Update

08/16/2017: The price tag of letting Obamacare fail

Sabri Ben-Achour Aug 16, 2017
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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has released a new report evaluating what would happen if Trump cut off Obamacare subsidies. The result: the government will actually end up shelling out more money. We’ll take a look at why this move would cost them more, and how taxpayers would be affected. Afterwards, we’ll discuss a decline in the number of new homes being built in the U.S., and then talk about fringe sites that are popping up to support white supremacist groups as they get kicked off of more mainstream platforms.

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