Nickelback is more popular, for crying out loud.
| |  |  | | with Josh Hafner | | OnPolitics Today: Basically no one likes Republicans' latest health care plan | | Republicans can't get enough Republicans to vote for the Senate health plan designed entirely by Republicans. |  | | A not insignificant number of GOP senators - about nine or so - say they won't back the anti-Obamacare bill in its current form, enough to stop it dead in its tracks. | | And those senators aren't the only ones who dislike the bill: Just 12% of Americans support the plan, a new USA TODAY and Suffolk University Poll found. | | That'd make the bill statistically less popular than Congress itself and about almost certainly less liked than Canadian rockers Nickelback, per a poll on the band from last year. | | Also on Wednesday: President Trump's company faked its own news, while he began raising - and making - money off his reelection bid. | | It's OnPolitics Today, USA TODAY's daily politics roundup. Subscribe here. | | Trump's own fake news, and the latest on Russia | | A fake Time magazine cover praising Trump displayed proudly at at least five of the president's clubs, including Mar-A-Lago, his oft-visited "winter White House," the Washington Post reported . Trump's fake news featured a bland portrait of him with the headline "Donald Trump: The 'Apprentice' is a television smash!," a sycophantic headline on a cover Time confirmed it didn't print. Just who designed the cover and framed it for the resorts remains a mystery - the White House "couldn't comment." | | Trump claims the Russia accusations don't hold water, but he's sure assembling a giant army of lawyers to fend off expected legal dilemmas. Meanwhile, his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, revealed that he earned more than $17 million working for a pro-Russia organization. | | Trump's already running for reelection - and profiting from it, too | | Trump floats taxpayer money to his own businesses regularly, forcing squadrons of staffers and security to eat and sleep at his hotels and resorts. (Trump's businesses made $14 million off his 2016 campaign alone.)
Now he's already hosting his first fundraising event ahead of his 2020 campaign at, of course, the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Trump's careful not to break any laws, but he does "exploit his opportunities to promote Trump properties," said Kathleen Clark, a law professor specializing in government ethics. | | Aw health no | | So here some of the big issues keeping Republican senators from voting on their own party's health plan: | | • | Planned Parenthood funding: It's already illegal for federal money to fund abortions, so some think it's unnecessary that the Senate bill would stop all funding for the Planned Parenthood's non-abortion services.
| | • | Opioid addiction: Senators from states hit heavily by America's opioid crisis want the bill to add funding for addiction treatment, something the Affordable Care Act let their states dramatically increase.
| | • | Health coverage regulation: Conservative stalwart Mike Lee of Utah wants wants to let insurance companies offer unregulated plans. Those would cost less but also cover less, but would effectively let insurers base prices on a customer's health status. | | | Dive deeper into these topics and more big issues with the bill. | | Elsewhere in politics | | | | | MOST POPULAR STORIES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FOLLOW US Thank you for subscribing to On Politics. © 2017 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC.
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