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Republicans have voted early Thursday to start the repealing of one of the President Obama signature, Obamacare. The repealing of the Affordable care act by Republicans senators has been one of the goals, which aligns with the campaign rhetoric of president-elect Donald J. Trump.

The senators voted 51-48 to approve a budget resolution that Republicans will use to speed through repealing the ACA.

                                          The senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell

The senator believes that the 2010 health care law is broken and should be immediately replaced by something else, though they are yet to come up with such plan. The senators cite the sky rocketing premium prices, high deductibles and fewer health care choice as insurance company seems to be pulling out of the program.

The senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell why speaking on the replacing and replacing of the health care law said;

When Obamacare’s supporters forced their partisan law on our country, they promised an easy-to-use system; one that would lower premiums and out-of-pocket health care costs; one that would foster choice and allow families to keep the plans and doctors they liked, but it didn’t take long for the American people to discover the truth about Obamacare. Too many have been personally hurt by this law. Too many feel they’re worse off than they were before Obamacare.

Senator Patty Murray of Washington and the senior Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee while speaking on the Republicans act to repeal the law says;

Ripping apart our health care system — with no plan to replace it — will create chaos.

If Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act, it’s women, kids, seniors, patients with serious illnesses, and people with disabilities who will bear the burden.

Premiums will skyrocket,Out-of-pocket prescription drug costs will rise. And overall health care costs will increase. It’s a perfect storm to make America sick again — and absolutely the wrong direction for families and for our economy.

The president-elect and house republicans are yet to offer a program that will be used to replace Obamacare. 

Speaker of the house, Paul Ryan, also said;

It is our goal to bring it all together concurrently. We’re going to use every tool at our disposal through legislation, through regulation, to bring replace concurrent along with repeal, so that we can save people from this mess.

In his news conference on Wednesday, Donald Trump said that he would offer a detailed plan on replacement plan when his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary,Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia is confirmed by the senate.

A new report have been criculating between journalists, elected officials, and security officials that show the close ties between the Kremlin and US President-elect, Trump. The explosive, but yet unverified report shows how Russia has been supporting Trump in the past 5 years to become the President of the United States.

The dossier is a collection of memos that has been written over a couple of months, meeting between Trump and Russian operatives, his graphic sexual acts documented by the Russians. The two-page documents have also been given to Donald Trump and outgoing president Obama.

The document has also been acquired and distrbuted to the public to give Americans the idea of the incoming president. 

Trump team has denied the allegation and information in the documents, with Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen saying that the report is false, he said;

It’s so ridiculous on so many levels,Clearly, the person who created this did so from their imagination or did so hoping that the liberal media would run with this fake story for whatever rationale they might have.”

Also, Donald Trump current senior White House adviser, Kellyanne Conway, while speaking to Seth Meyer on his late night show said "nothing has been confirmed."

Trump also took to Twitter and denied the allegations,tweeting;

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The US president-elect, Donald J. Trump has said he looks forward to meeting the British prime minister, Theresa May in Spring. The meeting is set to have been scheduled after meetings of  the closest advisers of both leaders in Washington.

Donald Trump also praises the relationship of both countries, saying Britain is "a longtime U.S. ally, is very special!"

A day of the meeting is yet to be announced, but it is expected to come within weeks after Trump's inauguration. Both Trump and May had talked twice after he was announced as the winner of the US election, and May had suggested that both of their advisers meets first before their new arranged meeting.

Donald Trump has officially won the electoral college, and will be the President of the US come January 20. The president-elect officially won the 270 electoral college votes needed to formalise his presidency.

Electors have said they had received thousands of emails from concerned citizens asking them to not vote for Donald Trump in the December 19th electoral college vote.

Texas put Donald Trump over the 270 threshold, despite two of his electors voting against him.

According to the New York Times, four other Democratic electors were also reported to have cast their votes for other candidate that is not Hillary Clinton. The official result will later be announced on January 6 in a special joint session.

Donald Trump also goes on Twitter to appreciate his supporters for the victory while officially taking a swipe at the media.

After different speculation on who will be the secretary of state for President-elect Donald Trump administration, a source close to the transition team have said that Donald Trump is considering ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of State nominee.

Donald Trump also makes the announcement via his Twitter page he would be announcing his pick for secretary of state on Tuesday.

The president elect described the ExxonMobil CEO as a big player in the world stage, while Democrats and Republicans have raised questions about his candidacy, because of his different ties to Russia.

While speaking with Fox News Sunday, Donald Trump praised Tillerson, and said, He is "much more than a business executive.""I mean, he's a world-class player, He's in charge of, I guess the largest company in the world. He's in charge of an oil company that's pretty much double the size of his next serious competitor."

Mitt Romney was one of the favourably considered for the position, and had met Trump twice, but he wrote on his Facebook account that he was out of consideration, also President-elect Donald Trump has reported to have called him personally and let him know that he would no longer be considered for the position.

Mitt wrote;

Also, another considered candidate, Rudy Giuliani, is also out of consideration after he told Trump personally not to no longer consider him for the position.