Good Tuesday morning, I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Flash Briefing,

brought to you by UC Davis. The most important news for D.C. first. Metro is operating on a Saturday

schedule today and the federal government is opening three hours late. But back to the news.

The Congressional Budget Office has spoken and 24 million is the number. That's how many people

will be uninsured by 2024 under the current Republican plan. That's a big number, period.

Here's what Republicans will try to say. We never said we would insure as many people as Obamacare

does, and they might still pass it. And here is what a senior GOPAid said to us

last night. Members are in a good place. The key takeaway for them in the report was lower premiums.

The president is committed to winning and getting this plan through and relief for Americans.

This is not insurance for everybody, has President Donald Trump once promised. But here's the New York Times headline that says it all.

24 million more among uninsured under GOP plan.

Also, by 2026, CBO projects $337 billion to be cut from the federal deficit.

The Washington Post has another headline that could cause headaches for Republicans.

Defunding Planned Parenthood would lead to thousands more births. Our colleagues on the Hill have a piece

about how Republicans on Capitol Hill are scrambling after the scorching appraisal. They write,

Speaker Paul Ryan's team quickly pinpointed rosier elements of the report by the CBO,

from cost savings to lower premiums.

But the bottom line, the number of uninsured Americans will climb by 24 million within a decade

threatened to upend the GOP's leadership's fragile efforts to unite congressional Republicans

around the plan.

But it actually could be worse.

Paul Demko reports that a White House analysis of the GOP plan to repeal and replace Obamacare

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