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themselves and for their families, not that government forces them to buy. That's the change." -- JAKE TAPPER talks with PRICE on CNN's "STATE OF THE UNION"-- TAPPER : "[A] lot of working-class voters went in there in November and pulled the lever for President Trump, having heard him say that he was going to keep their Medicaid, save their Medicaid, without any cuts. CBO says this is an $880 billion cut. And I asked you at the top, and I'm wondering if you just could directly answer this, because one of the frustrations people with how Obamacare was sold to the public is that politicians weren't straight, they didn't acknowledge that there were winners and losers. There were winners and losers with Obamacare. There are winners and losers with Trumpcare as well -- $880 billion, that's a cut for Medicaid. How is that not a broken promise?" PRICE: "Well, look again, Jake. The winners under Obamacare were the federal government and insurance companies. The winners under the program that we provide and that we believe is the most appropriate will be patients and families and doctors. The reduction in spending that the Congressional Budget Office cites is again off the current law baseline. That means, if we did nothing at all, if we just continued this broken program for the next 10 years, how much money would the federal government spend? "I would suggest to you that the American people are sick and tired of business as usual in Washington, and they are sick and tired of their tax dollars going to programs that actually don't work. We want a Medicaid system that works for those patients. We want a Medicaid system that doesn't just provide them a card and says they have coverage, but doesn't provide them the kind of care that they need. That is the distinction that I would ask them to draw." TOM SIETSEMA'S TOP 10 NEW RESTAURANTS IN D.C. -- Colada Shop ... Kobo ... Fish by Jose Andres ... Bindaas ... Tiger Fork ... Ambar ... Arroz ... Himitsu ... Sfoglina ... Mirabelle. http://wapo.st/2qPc6yv RAHM WATCH -- "Chicago mayor Emanuel posts EPA's deleted climate change page," by Isaac Dovere: "The new section of the City of Chicago's website, launched this weekend, pulls data from the archived Environmental Protection Agency page, noting, 'while this information may not be readily available on the agency's webpage right now, here in Chicago we know climate change is real and we will continue to take action to fight it.' [Rahm] Emanuel is promising to build the site out more in the coming weeks, using city resources. 'The Trump administration can attempt to erase decades of work from scientists and federal employees on the reality of climate change, but burying your head in the sand doesn't erase the problem,' Emanuel said." http://politi.co/2qOCwkc ... See the site http://bit.ly/2p9frLU DEEP DIVE -- "The D.C. Housing Department forfeited millions as families waited for help," by WaPo's Debbie Cenziper, Sarah Bowman, Lillianna Byington and Robin Eberhardt: "Just before her 100th day in office, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser stood before a packed house at the city's historic Lincoln Theatre and called on taxpayers to make an unprecedented investment in the poor. For the first time, she announced, the District would devote $100 million in city funds each year to the Housing Production Trust Fund - a lifeline for families struggling to find a place to live in one of the least affordable cities in the country. ... "But at the city agency entrusted with producing homes for the poor, officials were giving up millions of additional dollars from another essential source of affordable housing money: the federal government. The D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development was forced to forfeit $15.8 million in the past three years after repeatedly missing key spending deadlines meant to ensure that federal housing money is properly managed at the local level, The Washington Post found." http://wapo.st/2qQ0SsM PIC DU JOUR -- @HernandezJavier: "Here's a slide shown during Kushner Co. event in Beijing identifying @realDonaldTrump as 'key decision maker' on EB-5 investor visa program" http://bit.ly/2pj86Ve VALLEY TALK -- "What it's like to have a surprise dinner with Mark Zuckerberg," by Business Insider's Alex Heath: "About two weeks ago, Daniel Moore received a cryptic phone call. The 57-year-old resident of Newton Falls, Ohio was told that a billionaire philanthropist from California wanted to meet and have dinner with his family. ... Facebook's 32-year-old CEO has given himself a personal goal of visiting the roughly 30 U.S. states he hasn't been to yet by the end of 2017. The reason why? To 'get out and talk to more people about how they're living, working and thinking about the future,' he wrote in a Facebook post from January. ... After Zuckerberg asked them why they had voted for Trump, Moore turned the tables and asked if Zuckerberg had spoken with Trump since he was elected. Zuckerberg, who was noticeably absent from Trump's meeting with tech leaders in December, said he had in fact talked with Trump multiple times on the phone." http://read.bi/2qFiLT6