-- Health care is a siren song that has seduced many presidents since Harry Truman called for a national insurance program in 1945. An active FBI investigation into his associates is a big gray cloud over the White House. Jared Kushner listens during a White House meeting with business leaders. Now the White House is taking active steps to starve the bureaucracy of its lifeblood: money and staff. Ranking committee Democrat Adam Schiff implied that he suspects a White House hand in what he called Nunes’s “dead-of-night excursion” to view classified documents.

Source: Washington Post March 27, 2017 14:59 UTC