Trump urges future government shutdown

Patient advocacy groups, including the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association, also oppose the reworked bill, while the American Medical Association and others have expressed concerns over coverage losses and unaffordable insurance for those with pre-existing conditions. It absolutely is which is why it’s so frustrating to have the Democrats go out and say they won and we lost.

“We have more money now for the border than we’ve gotten in 10 years”, he said.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who helped shepherd the Affordable Care Act into law seven years ago, issued a statement Wednesday shortly after House GOP leaders announced plans to vote on their measure. Trump loyalist Rep. Bill Long, R-Mo., has the same reservations.

Democrats have claimed victory over the new spending deal.

Like Mr. Mulvaney, Mr. Trump said Republicans boosted military spending and broke the pattern of matching military spending increases with nondefense boosts. The administration was willing to deny benefits at least until they “could get something in return”. The compromise spending package does not provide funds for many of Trump’s campaign promises, such as a wall on the USA border with Mexico.

Trump called for the socalled “nuclear option” but also said the party could strengthen its hand by winning more Senate seats in the 2018 congressional election.

President Donald Trump took the unusual step of advocating a shutdown of the USA government Tuesday, after Republicans and Democrats reached a budget deal that ignored key White House demands.

Swalwell’s tweet appears to be an assertion that he and his colleagues are working to either impeach Trump or simply block his administration’s agenda.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, asked if there’s any appetite among senators for a government shutdown, said: “None that I’ve detected”. Ryan said “I am not even going to venture to guess” whether such battles might generate a shutdown, though Republicans were surprised by Trump’s tweets and view the prospect of a shutdown as a political loser for them.

“You’ve got a president who knows what he’s doing when it comes to running the country”, Mulvaney said. They blocked funding for Mr. Trump’s border wall, though Republicans included some $12 billion for border and customs security.

In addition, he said the administration managed to break an unwritten rule on Capitol Hill, that defense spending needed to be matched dollar for dollar by non-defense spending.

“What a lot of people in America don’t realize is appropriation bills, they take 60 votes to pass”.

Specifically in reference to Trump’s tweet about the “need” for a shutdown, Mulvaney added, “I think what you heard this morning was his sense of frustration over how he’s being mistreated by the Democrats on a bipartisan piece of legislation….” “President Trump may not like what he sees in this budget deal, but it’s unsafe and irresponsible to respond by calling for a shutdown, ” said Sen.

An image depicting different boarder walls is displayed behind Budget Director Mick Mulvaney as he speaks to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Washington.

The intra-party GOP bickering does not bode well for the Republicans’ proposed health care bill.

The Obamacare provisions that force insurers to charge sick and healthy people the same rates have been popular with Americans, and Mr Trump has promised to retain such protections.