Trump Blames Democrats For Healthcare Fail

Repealing the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was supposed to be the first major victory for a president who advertised himself as a savvy deal-maker who could buck the system and get things done in Washington.

“We had no votes from the Democrats”, Trump said Friday shortly after the bill was pulled.

Should Democrats have backed the new health-care plan?

“The general consensus was let’s just get it done”, said Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Georgia, also a member of the Freedom Caucus, of health care. He has pointed fingers at Democrats, at the conservative Freedom Caucus and at Ryan – all while ignoring the fact that legislating is more complex than building a golf course.

Numerous very same pressures that stopped the GOP’s American Health Care Act dead in its tracks will be present again with tax reform.

Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), who played a significant role in crafting the bill as chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, said the House was done but the effort could still continue in the Senate, where the House bill would have been thoroughly overhauled to win enough GOP support.

Furthermore, Friday’s defeat showed caucus members that “they can successfully stand up to Trump and derail legislation”, Klaas said. Leaving this caucus will allow me to be a more effective member of Congress and advocate for the people of Texas.

House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the bill from consideration after he rushed to the White House to tell President Donald Trump that there weren’t the 216 votes necessary for passage. Health care was a topic but it wasn’t central to the agenda, sources said. Postmortems have indicated that Trump had little interest in the details of the bill or the intricacies of health care and believed that he could get the bill passed simply by throwing his support behind it.

Republicans are still committed to lowering premiums under the Affordable Care Act despite a failed GOP health bill, Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., said Monday. “We have an aggressive agenda and we’ve been moving quickly on this aggressive agenda, but we want to make sure that we get it right”.

The budget resolution for the current fiscal year dictates that any reconciliation measure must reduce the deficit, which the GOP’s Obamacare repeal was created to do.

FILE – House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., departs after speaking to the media after a Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill.

Ryan noted that on Tuesday, the House will act on another bill to reverse “bad regulations”. “I think that mood exists today”.

Even when he was supposed to be pushing health care at a rally last week in Nashville, Tenn., he couldn’t hide his priorities.

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows told reporters that he and others still wanted to get to “yes”. “The bill is not going to come again, at least in the near future”, reporter Bob Costa reiterated on MSNBC.

“It wasn’t going to be flawless from the get-go”, she said.

“We’re going to have to look at where a governing majority comes from”.

The bill’s defeat, says Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at Commonwealth Financial Network, might actually be better for the market in the long run.

Trump and Ryan agreed during the transition process to tackle health care first, partly for procedural reasons: With both health care and tax reform, Republicans planned to use a legislative tactic known as “budget reconciliation” that prevents Senate Democrats from blocking measures with a filibuster.