The Daily 202: Why Virginia’s Medicaid expansion is a big deal
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-- These GOP defectors have experienced few repercussions back home. Americans for Prosperity, a political arm of the network led by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers, ran ads attacking several of the 19 GOP delegates who voted for expansion in hopes that they would change their minds when the issue came up again in the special session. It showed that the anti-expansion effort was more bark than bite.
In Kilgore’s district, which went heavily for Trump, AFP radio ads broadcast his office phone number and urged people to call. “No calls, no comments,” Kilgore told Vozzella back in March. “I’ve been to Republican mass meetings. I’ve been out and about, ballgames, this and that. What I’ve heard people say is, ‘Hey, what you said made sense. We don’t mind helping people if they’re helping themselves.’”
-- The new NSC chief of staff, the latest in a flurry of hires by national security adviser John Bolton, comes from a group that argues Muslims are plotting to take over the U.S. government. From Abigail Hauslohner: “The appointment of Fred Fleitz drew condemnation from civil rights groups this week. The Anti-Defamation League criticized what it described as ‘his senior leadership role with the Center for Security Policy, an Islamophobic, conspiracy-promoting organization.’ … Fleitz has also promoted the myth of European ‘no-go zones’ — places the CSP casts as being governed by Islamic law — as well as a widely debunked CSP survey that suggested a quarter of Muslims support violence against Americans.”
-- HUD Secretary Ben Carson has hired the son of his close friend and business associate to be his deputy chief of staff. CNN’s Gregory Wallace and Rene Marsh report: “Alfonso Costa Jr., 29, is expected to join the department in the coming weeks. … The arrival comes as one of Carson's closest political aides, deputy chief of staff Deana Bass, leaves the department and shortly after a relative novice to housing policy, Andrew Hughes, was promoted to chief of staff. ... Costa's father is a dentist-turned-real-estate-investor who Carson has described as ‘one of my closest, if not my very closest friend.’ Carson and his wife were involved in a 2007 real estate deal with the senior Costa. Later that year, after the elder Costa was convicted for health care fraud, Carson wrote on his behalf to the federal judge sentencing him”: 'I could literally trust him with all of my earthly possessions and rest assured that I would get all of them back with interest,' Carson wrote. 'To sum it up, next to my wife of 32 years, there is no one on this planet that I trust more than Al Costa.' "
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