Trump blames conservatives over Obamacare – and reaches out to Democrats

“The president wants to get something passed – I don’t believe the answer is to get the Democrats onboard”, Poe, a Texas Republican told host Steve Malzberg on Monday’s “America Talks Live”.

While I have wanted to provide President Trump and the Republican Congress the benefit of the doubt, I recall Mr. Trump famously promised a health plan that would provide more coverage at lower cost than Obamacare.

Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows of North Carolina, who helped lead conservatives to hold out against Ryan’s bill last week, also sounded as if efforts on a bill were re-energized.

Ryan declined to say what might be in the next version of the Republicans’ repeal bill, nor would he sketch any schedule for action.

Meanwhile, a member of the Freedom Caucus says he will force the House to vote on a full repeal of Obama’s health care law in a month if the chamber hasn’t acted to roll back the statute. However, the Freedom House said that it wasn’t enough to drive down premiums. Yes”, he said. “Are we actively planning an immediate strategy? “We were going to go from a very hectic work schedule to what today is a fairly light work schedule”.

“But if a trend develops, the caucus might push Trump into the arms of moderate Democrats willing to pull bills to the left in exchange for passage”, he said. “And they will come to us; we won’t have to come to them”.

The bill was pulled from the House floor on Friday in a humiliating political defeat for Mr Trump, lacking support from conservative Republicans and Democrats. But documentary filmmaker and noted Democrat Michael Moore, who has been very active during Trump’s first 60 days in office and in the years leading up to his election, says that now is not the time to “gloat”.

Spicer said lawmakers from both parties have reached out to the White House since the repeal-and-replace measure’s collapse on Friday.

On Sunday morning, Trump wasted little time publicly rebuking the conservative group.

“Have we had some discussions and listened to ideas?”

“I think the main area of consensus is that Obamacare sucks and we can do better”, Sen. Ryan said he did not know what the next steps would be on health care, but called Obamacare so flawed that it would be hard to prop up. “I think there has been a lot of flexibility in terms of some of my contacts and conservatives in terms of not making it totally offset”, he said.

But on Sunday, his aides made clear that he would be seeking support from moderate Democrats, leaving open the possibility he could still revisit health care legislation. Our job is not to continue to be the protest caucus. “I don’t want us to become a factionalized majority. We don’t want a government run healthcare system, we all agree on these things”. “So, we’re going to keep working”.