MARC LOTTER – the Vice President’s Press Secretary

Topic: Tech Week/Healthcare

• Senate Democrats are in the midst of trying a procedural Hail Mary to derail the Senate GOP’s bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.

• Trump called House bill ‘mean’; critics say Senate could go further

• Trump to meet with top executives on wireless tech, drones

• In front of the cameras — and seated alongside the president in the White House — the likes of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos offered rare praise of Trump’s tech agenda. Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, even seemed to suggest Trump helped foster “a huge explosion of new opportunities” on the horizon.