* PRICE IS CONFIRMED, GIVING NEW PUSH TO REPEAL: 

Early Friday morning, the Senate confirmed Tom Price as health and human services secretary, and Politico comments:

The bitter opposition to Price’s nomination … served as a preview of the fight to come over the future of American health care. And Price could well start that fight immediately by using his authority as secretary to roll back or not enforce select pieces of Obamacare — the mandated benefit package, perhaps, or the hot-button birth control coverage rules.

While repeal has run into trouble, make no mistake: The undermining and repeal of large chunks of the law is still moving forward, and what happens after that remains a mystery.