Ex-Freedom Caucus member: Group needs to ‘change their concept’
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan made a decision to pull the bill from the House floor on Friday after it became clear it was bound to fail. He asked them to reflect on the party’s failure.
However, Trump, amid the realization that the GOP plan might fail, hinted last week in a closed-door Capitol Hill meeting that non-supporters could suffer a primary defeat next year and said to Meadows, “Oh Mark, I’m going to come after you”.
Congress is fast approaching a deadline to pass government-wide spending legislation or face a shutdown. “And they will come to us; we won’t have to come to them”.
SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE: Hey, Kelly.
‘It would be a huge mistake for the message on this failure on health care to be to assume that conservatives won’t be good allies, ‘ said Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union.
DAVIS: Oh, they think it’s significant. Just 21 percent say they supported it, with a majority, 52 percent, saying they were opposed. In January, he called Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer “head clown” of the party.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are signaling a commitment to continue trying to overhaul the nation’s health care system, after their push to repeal former President Barack Obama’s signature program failed in dramatic fashion last week. Here’s what he had to say. That’s a shift for a fiscal conservative concerned about deficits. That’s left health care industry leaders and policy experts wondering what to expect.
To become an effective president, Trump has to realize that he will never fit in with the majority party. “I think it’s critical for the White House and Republicans in Congress to agree on pro-growth tax reform together and move forward together as well”, he added. He can’t show up at the blaze and say I’m not putting it out because it started when the other guy was in charge.
United States stocks slid on Monday amid concerns that Republican President Donald Trump may struggle to push a sweeping overhaul of the tax code through Congress in the wake of his party’s failure last week to pass broad health care legislation.
DAVIS: Well, he really only has two options. We’ll have a legislation where it’s already in the works, where Republicans are coming out against [it]. The Affordable Care Act, despite its flaws, is insuring folks so they can have the health care that they need. Do you think this is wrong?
WATCH: President Donald Trump suffered a stunning political setback on Friday in a Congress controlled by his own party when Republican leaders pulled legislation to overhaul the USA healthcare system, a major 2016 election campaign promise of the president and his allies.
“The president said he’s moving on to taxes”, Poe said.
“They have Obamacare for a little while longer until it ceases to exist, which it will, at some point in the near future”.
DAVIS: Not if it means passing Republican ideas. At least, one observes, the Democrats had a bill. There is bipartisan consensus among other issues. Other people lost a lot of money – bondholders, et cetera. Former House Speaker John Boehner did rely on House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on several occasions to get bills passed in the House. “We need to be on a team and get a good product”.
You get the impression that if the one-car funeral procession somehow miraculously made it to cemetery, the Freedom Caucus purists would walk out because the florist delivered 227 flowers to the gravesite instead of 228. Is Speaker Ryan facing any kind of similar pressure? “What matters more than anything else is that it’s done the right way”.