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Marth Allen, the head of the Vermont chapter of the National Education Association, speaks Tuesday May, 16, 2017, at the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt. Allen said Gov. Phil Scott's idea to require a statewide health insurance plan for teachers is an assault on collective bargaining in the state. Lawmakers and the governor are at odds over the best way to save money on health insurance for teachers. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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Masrour Barzani, Chancellor of the Kurdish Region Security Council, speaks at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. The Chancellor is in the capitol to discuss ongoing cooperation between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the United States. (Laura Kelly)
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Saily Avelenda poses for a photo in West Caldwell, N.J., Monday, May 15, 2017. Avelenda, who joined a group critical of a Republican congressman and President Donald Trump's policies says she quit her job after the congressman referred to her in a fundraising letter to her employer. (Bob Karp/The Daily Record via AP)
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Saily Avelenda poses for a photo in West Caldwell, N.J., Monday, May 15, 2017. Avelenda, who joined a group critical of a Republican congressman and President Donald Trump's policies says she quit her job after the congressman referred to her in a fundraising letter to her employer. (Bob Karp/The Daily Record via AP)
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Well-wishing messages and flowers for an injured employee are shown outside a grocery store in Estacada, Ore., Monday, May 15, 2017. Police say a man carrying what appeared to be a human head stabbed an employee at the grocery store. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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Well-wishing messages and candles for an injured employee are shown outside a grocery store in Estacada, Ore., Monday, May 15, 2017. Police say a man carrying what appeared to be a human head stabbed an employee at the grocery store. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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In this May 11, 2017 photo, protesters gather outside US Rep. Randy Hultgren's office in McHenry, Ill. The group of about 30 people demonstrated against Hultgren's health care vote. (AP Photo/Sara Burnett)
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Macron and the Future of the European Union Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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In this Feb. 9, 2017, file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington. Health insurance tax credits, mandates, taxation of employer coverage, essential benefits. Mind-numbing health care jargon is flying around again as Republicans move to repeal and replace the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. Its time to start paying attention. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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A security guard stands outside the Telefonica headquarters in Madrid, Spain, Friday, May 12, 2017. The Spanish government said several companies including Telefonica had been targeted in ransomware cyberattack that affected the Windows operating system of employees' computers. (AP Photo/Paul White)
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Constituents respond as Rep. Rod Blum, Iowa Republican, tries to reassure them about health care. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - This Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, shows the HealthCare.gov 2017 website home page on display, in Washington. Early moves by insurers in some states suggest another round of higher prices and limited choices will greet health insurance shoppers in markets around the country when they start searching for next year’s coverage on the Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Illustration on fixing health care by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, pauses while meeting with the media to discuss health care on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 9, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE – In this March 16, 2017, file photo, Cleveland police officers stand watch during an NBA basketball game between the Utah Jazz and Cleveland Cavaliers, at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. A federal judge overseeing an agreement to overhaul Cleveland's police department has been asked not to require officers to wear body cameras while moonlighting, in a May 5, 2017, court filing by city attorneys. None of the 630 officers approved for secondary employment volunteered to wear body cameras while moonlighting as part of a proposed pilot program, according to the court filing. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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Rae Seaton challenges U.S. Rep. Rod Blum, R-Iowa, on his answer to her healthcare question during a town hall at Dubuque Senior High School in Dubuque, Iowa, on Monday, May 8, 2017. (Eileen Meslar/Telegraph Herald via AP)
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Inhabitants pass by rescue workers in Hannover-Vahrenfeld, northern Germany, Sunday, May 7, 2017 when 50,000 people have to leave their homes when an unexploded World War II bomb is defused. (Peter Steffen/dpa via AP)
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FILE - In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 file photo, demonstrators hold signs during a healthcare rally in Salt Lake City. Utah's all-Republican House delegation voted Thursday in favor of a health care overhaul that could impact people with pre-existing conditions, triggering serious worries from people who fit that category. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump, flanked by then-Commerce Secretary-designate Wilbur Ross, left, and Harley Davidson President and CEO Matt Levatich, talks to media before a lunch meeting with Harley Davidson executives and union representatives in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Trump says labor unions have an open door to his White House, but so far, he is holding it a little more ajar for some organizations than others. Trump has put out the welcome mat for the nations construction trades, with whom hes had relationships during decades of building office towers and hotels. Also invited in have been auto, steel and coal workers who backed him during the 2016 election. But theres been no White House invitation for other unions representing the nations sprawling _ but shrinking _ pool of 14.6 million workers who collectively bargain with employers in the labor movement. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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President Donald Trump, accompanied by House GOP members, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017, after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
