Is the president getting played by Speaker Ryan?

Trump’s handling of health care was viewed unfavorably by 6 in 10.

In February of 2016, Trump told people in New Hampshire….

But they have a very short window of opportunity to accomplish these things before facing the voters in 2018.

Earlier Friday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said during an interview with the news site Axios said he has been overseeing the administration’s tax reform bill for the past two months.

The president refrained from criticising Mr Ryan, whose job as speaker of the House involves rallying support for controversial bills. “You have no choice but to vote for this bill”, Bannon said. “Whether it’s immigration, taxes, the border wall”. But by midday Friday-when the chair of the House Appropriations Committee announced his opposition to the bill-it seemed that the larger pool of opponents might come from the Party’s moderate wing. With that, Ryan was forced to utter these words: “Obamacare is the law of the land and will remain the law of the land until it is replaced”. Saying of the Democrats, “Whenever they’re ready, we’re ready”. Late Wednesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it has evidence that associates of Donald Trump communicated with Russian Federation during the 2016 US presidential campaign, possibly to coordinate the release of Hillary Clinton campaign info via Wikileaks.

So he was told by Trump to pull the plug.

One of Abraham’s concerns about any measure is increasing the cost for working-class patients, Avery said.

“I would say that we will probably start going very, very strongly for the big tax cuts and tax reform”.

On personal rates, Trump has promised to simplify the tax code, decreasing the number of tax brackets from seven to three: 12, 25, and 33 percent. Trump added that he thinks the Republicans came within 5 to 12 votes of being able to pass the bill.

Obviously, with many knowing the difficulty it was not shocking the GOP did not get their healthcare bill through. “If both parties could get together and do real healthcare, that’s the best thing.”, he said.

That’s why Trump has even more on the line in his next battle, over tax reform – an issue, he’ll find, that’s every bit as complicated as healthcare.

Obama declared in a statement that “America is stronger” because of the current law and said Democrats must make sure “any changes will make our health care system better, not worse for hardworking Americans”.

Moore mocked the business mogul turned-president’s deal making skills with a nod his 1987 book: “So much for the Art of the Deal”.

Among them: Sen. Rob Portman of OH, who, along with several other Republican senators, sent a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell earlier this month outlining the plan’s likely harm to the millions of Americans covered by Medicaid expansion, in OH and other states – and to the states themselves.

And knowing who to work with in the future is one of the key takeaways from a White House chastened by the broken promise of health care reform but still hoping to enact a robust agenda.

The Quinnipiac University survey said that USA voters disapproved of the Republican plan, which also would end the Medicaid entitlement program in favor of a pre-determined amount going to the states while cutting taxes for wealthy Americans and corporations, by a better than 3 to 1 margin. You either take it – it’s my way or the highway.