Senate Health Care Overhaul Falls Apart, House GOP Releases Budget Plan

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Published July 18, 2017 at 1:11 PM EDT

After the latest Senate plan’s failure to move forward, where does the GOP health care overhaul effort stand?

NPR’s Domenico Montanaro( @DomenicoNPR) joins Here & Now‘s Jeremy’s Hobson to discuss the latest, as well as House Republican leaders releasing a 10-year budget plan that calls for dramatic military spending increases and drastic cuts in social spending.

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