Donald Trump Jr. insists he has “zero contact” with his father
This week could offer some clues.
Donald Jr, 39, revealed at a GOP fundraiser in Dallas just how little he has interacted with the president.
The Republican Party and President Trump do not want to do that. “And I believe it would have adverse consequences for millions of Americans and it wouldn’t deliver on our promises to reduce the cost of health insurance for Americans”, Republican Senator Tom Cotton told ABC.
“My job is to legislate on behalf of my constituents, and frankly I much rather preferred Donald Trump to be president than Hillary Clinton”, said Davis. “It’s putting them in the poorhouse”.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer created another wrinkle in the story on Monday. But it’s not unheard of.
“But the House Republican health bill turns that old maxim on its head”. Two years of no-bells-or-whistles, individual health care runs you somewhere over $9,000, and that’s if you don’t have to worry about deductibles, which, on this kind of plan, run about $4,000 a year. His speech was unifying for the Republican Party and emphasized the importance of both parties needing to work together.
Before Donald Trump was inaugurated the 45 President of the United States his initial gut instinct as a high stakes deal-maker was to let Obamacare crash and burn on its own.
Nothing we know about Ryan suggests that he cares about the bill’s likely consequences for Trump voters – except in the completely abstract sense that his ideological certainties lead him to presume (without evidence) that showering the rich with tax breaks will automatically benefit everyone else.
Supporters of the bill won their first victories as it passed two committees last week, but there are still divisions in the Republican ranks over some of the key elements of the plan – and some conservatives say it needs less government involvement for health care and more for the free market.
Since 2010, Republicans have repeatedly promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which is now universally referred to as Obamacare. More than 16 million are those who were added to the Medicaid rolls by Obamacare. Now numerous same Republicans who supported the 2015 plan are refusing to support it again. The plan hits hardest those who will lose their Medicaid and the working poor in the years before they’re eligible for Medicare.
Bosses of German companies including engineering group Siemens and carmaker BMW will travel with Merkel to meet Trump this week, sources tell Reuters.
For now, in an effort to win over members of the House Freedom Caucus on Trump’s legislative agenda, budget director Mick Mulvaney has invited the conservative lawmakers to a bowling and pizza night at the White House on Tuesday. Will Congress effectively tackle all the taxes and mandates tucked into that big piece of legislation we were famously told needed to be passed so we could know what was in it?
More rumblings of the president’s anticipated budget cast a cloud of uncertainty for federal employees on March 13, as rumors of stark workforce cuts began to swirl.