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b"U.S. House Republicans finally pass the American Health Care Act -- a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act ('ObamaCare') -- but at what cost? It's difficult to know, since GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan refused to allow the bill to be analyzed first by the Congressional Budget Office before forcing a vote in Congress. Instead, it was rammed through the House with a very narrow margin of all-Republican votes just hours after the final text was made available to members (exactly what Republicans used to pretend Democrats did during the 13-month process to pass ObamaCare in 2009 and 2010). The costs, however, could be enormous to the American public, particularly to the poor, the elderly, the more than 25 percent of Americans with pre-existing conditions, and to those who found themselves filing bankruptcy after unexpected medical bills prior to the passage of ACA. Also today, Donald Trump signed another one of his Executive Orders, this one pretending to counter the 'religious discrimination' of the Johnson Amendment, a piece of otherwise non-controversial bipartisan legislation passed in 1954 that bars tax-exempt non-profit groups, like churches, from explicitly endorsing or opposing candidates for office. But what's the real point behind Trump's otherwise empty action today? Brendan Fischer, associate counsel at the Campaign Legal Center joins us to explain this move toward allowing even more 'dark money' in politics and, this time, giving its secret donors a tax deduction for it in the bargain. Finally: Fox 'News' offers one more example today of the Right finding all-new ways to pretend that they are victims -- if you believe Fox's fake news, they are victims of violent and dangerous environmentalists..."