Breitbart Releases Old Audio of Ryan Dissing Trump
On Monday, the Congressional Budget Office scored the proposal. The new figures, which estimated that 24 million people would lose insurance over a decade, also appeared to strengthen pockets of conservative resistance to the bill and rattle nerves among rank-and-file Republicans.
Ryan’s insistence that the bill was a collaboration with the president and the Senate is significant in light of the concerted campaign right-wing media has embarked on to separate Trump from the bill and pin any dissatisfaction with it on Ryan alone.
Meanwhile, Tom Cotton, the Republican from Arkansas, on ABC’s “This Week”, expressed his concerns about the bill.
DAVIS: And McConnell’s allies, like Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, continue to press the case for scrapping the government mandate that individuals buy health insurance.
Angry Democrats, united against the GOP bill, scoffed at such claims. “This is something we wrote with the Senate committees”. Charles Grassley – who authored the original requirement that Congress participate in Obamacare – says he’ll pursue similar provisions in any successor bill.
The comments mark a change in tone from the Wisconsin Republican, who last week presented the bill in a PowerPoint presentation as a “binary choice” between repealing Obamacare and keeping it.
“It’s no secret Donald and I had our ups and downs during the campaign”, Ryan told Fox News host Martha MacCallum.
“We’re going through the process here”. Steve Bannon, the current White House strategist that formerly served as the site’s executive chair, reportedly often called Ryan “the enemy” during his time at Breitbart.
According to the Post, Ryan did not say what changes to his plan are under consideration.
“We understand this bill has nothing to do with health care”, Marin said. “But more importantly, they need to discover they do not have your votes”. The office’s estimates are relied upon by politicians from all sides, though often attacked when unfavourable.
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, on ABC’s “State of the Union”, rejected the AARP’s characterization of the GOP measure as imposing an age tax, saying he doubts those who oppose the bill have taken into account the impact of competition and the expansion of Health Savings Accounts.
Sen. Cotton, however, has been riding to the rescue of concerned conservatives-perhaps the only one in the GOP badass enough to halt a train going swiftly off the tracks. “We merged forces at the end of the campaign”.
Dent is co-chairman of the Tuesday Group, a coalition of about 50 moderate Republicans, and he said that efforts to speed up the rollback of Medicaid would cause many members of the group to vote against the bill. They would like to push that date forward to early 2018.