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MIDWEST EDITION | EAST COAST EDITION | Volume 7 • Issue No. 400 MARCH 10, 2017 | THE COMMUNITY FIRST
US President Donald Trump and Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster share a frame after latter was named national security adviser, replacing General Michael Flynn.
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House panels began debate of two bills comprising the Republican proposal House panels began debate of two bills comprising the Republican proposal to overturn (signed in 2010) and plan replace it with a new plan to overturn Obamacare (signed in 2010)Obamacare and replace it with a new
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“war of words” broke out in the US Congress over a new healthcare law replacing former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act or the ‘Obamacare’, the media reported this week. The two House committees began the debate of the two bills comprising the Republican proposal to overturn Obamacare signed in 2010, and replace it with a new plan, thus fulfilling a longstanding Republican promise and policy dream, Efe news reported. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has not been able to analyze the content of the lengthy and detailed bills and issue a report on their likely impact, and so Democrats insisted that it was necessary to stymie the proceedings until such an analysis had been made public. The Democrats have been very critical of the new plan, claiming that Obamacare has provided access to health insurance, and therefore healthcare, to over 20 million Americans who did not have it before, and they criticized the Republican plan that, among other things, cuts subsidies for
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name -- the American Health Care Act. x The American Medical Associadiaspor tion, which bills itself as the largest organization of doctors in the nation, in a letter, detailed its critique of the bill, known as the American Health Care Act that would repeal Obamacare signed in WASHINGTON: The Central Int 2010, CNN reported. gence Agency has refused to co The American Health Care Act firm the validity of thefor informatio The agency helps Seattle city police hunt an would limitcountry” future feder- and on shot electronichim, spying techniques back (AHCA) to your own in the al funding for Medicaid, which made public by WikiLeaks, but i covers low-income people; abolish said that disclosures of this kind the requirement that everyone put Americans in danger. should be insured; and replace sub“Such disclosures not only je sidies with tax credits. ardize US personnel and opera“While we agree that there are tions, but also equip our adverproblems with the ACA that must saries with tools and information be addressed, we cannot support do us harm,” CIA spokeswoman The two houses discussed whether Obama’s Affordable Care act should be the AHCA as drafted because of Heather F. Horniak has said. replaced with Trump’s American Health Care Act. (Photo: IANS) the expected decline in health WikiLeaks, headed by whistle low-income citizens who currently the anger voters will have toward insurance coverage and the potenblower Julian Assange, recently rely on them to be able to pay their the policies this plan puts for- tial harm it would cause to vulnerposted a series of seven batche able patient populations,” the letinsurance premiums. ward.” leaks, called “Vault 7” and of wh “It’s always more effective to However, the White House ter stated. the group entitled “Year Zero” Sushma Swaraj has voiced Major organizations, have a straightforward, simple, steered clear of putting the Presiincluding 7,818 FBI joinshospital investigation into Sikh man's shooting. over pages the racialwith attack943 on Si branded line of attack against your dent’s personal stamp on the legis- including the American Hospital attached files had already been received a bullet injury on his arm Sushma Swaraj had twe IANS, WASHINGTON Association and the Federation of opponent,” a Democratic cam- lation, the magazine said. published, Efe news reported. in the attack. The Indian Embassy has spoken to Sardar H American hospitals also come “We’re not into labels,” White he paign operative told The Hill magsaid thattheitsfather documents rev of the victim in Washington tweeted thatItIndian FBI is helping the have “Hemanaged told me that h ourCIA has by the Seattle city envoy Navtej Sarna “conveyed out against the bill. House press secretary Sean Spicer hunt azine. that the to cir injury on his arm concerns to the US govern-thebullet police an attacker TheforAHCA bill isdeepnow being “To the extent that ‘TrumpCare’ said. cumvent security protocols i of danger and is recove who told a Sikh man to ment on recent tragic incidents”. Besides, White House counselor (Democrats’ branding of the by and two congressional wide range of and p vatecompanies hospital,” she wrot Sarna said that India has “under“go back toconsidered your own country” — in the secondahead xeno- oflined need to preventucts such in inciandwas theworking US. on thathim committees Republican legislation) is a brand Kellyanne Conway insisted shot itsthepassage EuropeRai phobic attack on Indians the past and dents and protect the Indian com- front of his house in K or phrase that both encapsulates the law should go by its official through theinHouse Senate.
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WASHINGTON: Prominent Indianris blasted Trump’s order, saying: is supposed to last for up tolatest 6 months. Request American lawmakers have “This attempt by the Trump slammed President Donald administration immiforUSPremium Processing Serviceto ban fornew a Form Trump’s new executive travel ban and refugees from MuslimI-129, Petition for thegrants H-1B nonimmigrant order, saying it “does not make US majority countries, like the first classification will not be accepted byourUSCIS. safe” and it “undermines American attempt, undermines nation’s valuesEventually without improving security”. core values, jeopardizes our nationwhen the premium processing for The new order, signed al security, and hurts our H1-B petition is resumed, USCIS will“This notify privately by Trump, economy.” ban bans immigration does not keep us before resuming such premium processing. from six Muslimsafe. It puts AmeriThe temporary suspension ofcanpremium majority counlives at risk,” tries, dropping she said. filed processing will apply to all H-1B petitions Iraq from the “Refugees on or after April 3, 2017. This will include previous order in fleeing war and USCIS: . CAP petitions January, and exempt as well as Regular H-1B violence, who a tem- to CAP and Master’s Advanced have cleared a subject Degree The Immigration Service (USCIS) willreinstates porary blanket ban two-year vetting CAP exemption (the “master’s cap”). temporarily suspend accepting premiumon all refugees. process, should not arrive in the United processing beginning with in effect from April The new measures However USCIS will continue accepting will block citizens of Syria, States only to have the doors Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and shut,” a report by Times of San Yemen from obtaining visas for at Diego quoted her as saying. least 90 days. The order also susCongressman Ro Khanna said: pends admission of refugees into “The Trump Administration’s the US for 120 days, directing US repackaging is merely a second officials to improve vetting meaattemptWRITER to revise his unconstitutionBY A STAFF sures for a program widely regardal policy.” Congresswoman Pramila TOWNSHIP, NJ ed as extremely stringent.ALLOWAY Jayapal said that Trump has recogIt will go into effect from nized hisare original travel ban was – March The police investigating 16. California Senator Kamala Har- “unconstitutional.”
two weeks. India has voiced deep concern and stressed the need to prevent such incidents. The US State Department has also, on behalf of the Donald Trump administration, expressed condolences and said they are working on the case. The 39-year-old victim, a US national of Indian origin, was identified by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj as Deep Rai. He
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munity” and the embassy was coordinating with “all agencies concerned to ensure speedy justice”. The Indian embassy said that the “State Department, on behalf of US government, expressed condolences and assured they are working” on it. A statement from the FBI’s Seattle office said the bureau remains “committed to investigating crimes that are potentially hate-motivated”, the Seattle Times reported.
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