On the ACA, Obama will have the last laugh
CNN
With the Supreme Court turning back yet another challenge to the Affordable Care Act, it's becoming clear that the odds of dismantling Obama's signature legacy at this point are slim, writes Julian Zelizer. Joining the ranks of other programs like Social Security, the ACA will remain the law of the land for the foreseeable future, and Republicans, thus rebuked, will need to pursue new wedge issues.
Indeed, the odds of dismantling Obama's signature legacy at this point are increasingly slim, though conservatives will probably keep trying. Joining the ranks of other programs like Social Security, the ACA will remain the law of the land for the foreseeable future. Several legal challenges to it have now officially failed, as have political campaigns, most recently under former President Donald Trump, to repeal and replace.Over and over at a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Democratic senators confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about controversial comments they said he had made in the past. And over and over, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services either denied having said those things or said he wasn’t sure he had said them.
Investigators are intensifying their search into what caused the collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter, with recovery crews still working to pull wreckage from the Potomac River and initial concerns already raised about the path of at least one of the aircraft.