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White House Says Trump Opposes Bipartisan Senate Deal on Obamacare

Yasmeen Abutaleb and Amanda Becker  |  

The administration followed through on Trump’s plan from last week to end the subsidies, withholding a payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to insurers that had been scheduled for Wednesday.

 

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