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Posted on 03/23/2017 6:17:31 PM PDT by davikkm
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney emerged from a meeting with House Republicans with an ultimatum. If the House-led effort to replace Obamacare fails, the United States is stuck with Obamacare, according to several Congressional reporters on Twitter. Mulvaney was joined by a group of administration officials including senior advisors Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, and Kellyanne Conway for an evening meeting with House Republicans in an effort to break the logjam on the bill. Most House Freedom Caucus members refuse to vote for the bill without major changes. Moderate House Republicans have also protested the bill.
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But not one dime more than the original amount budgeted can ever be budgeted for this turkey.
I was thinking the same thing, but I'm still on the fence about it.
I like that Trump is using the deadline to scare both sides into compromising. It's the same brinksmanship Democrats use against Republicans with continuing resolution votes.
I expect that the pressure to vote or do nothing is aimed at Ryan, who started this thing with his ultimatum and tried to play chicken with the House and Senate.
That said, I do think that the "Obamacare remains" is not a permanent thing. I expect that if the vote fails tomorrow, then we wait until September, after Congress returns from their August recess and has gotten an earful from their constituents at their town hall meetings (if they're not too scared to cancel them).
The next move from the people is to swarm their representatives at every recess and tell them to repeal first, then replace later.
-PJ
He may not even get this deal (right now) but he’ll probably get the next one.
Repeal 0bamacare and give everyone the freedom to make their own healthcare plans. That is what we did before the Kenyan forced his monstrosity on us.
History will remember that they had a chance to do something, not how bad or good the replacement was.
But what does that even mean?
It means that the mandate stays.
Doesn't it still remain funded?
Won't premiums still go up?
It seems to me like kicking the can down the road—instead of achieving an historic and courageous act of statesmanship—is just condemning Americans to more agony for another year.
I don't think that Americans—who overwhelmingly despise 0bamacare—are going to be happy at seeing the federal government—under total GOP control—fail to take action against this abominable law—a law which is hurting millions of People...
I’d rather suffer under Obamacare rather than have Trump stained with this plan from Ryan!
Wrong.
Oh noes...
The Freedom Caucus didn't vote for ObamaCare in 2010 and won't vote for an ObamaCare-Lite bill now. So how do they own it?
PAUL is pushing a bill the Republicans voted for last year.
It’s what we wanted, and why they didn’t loft that thing, I have no idea, unless... unless Ryan is operating on behalf of the GOPe to sabotage Trump’s true intent.
I think Ryan lied to him and told him he couldn’t get the whole package now. B.S.
If they could pass this last year, then they darn well ought to pass it now.
Put the bill PAUL is talking about back up for a vote. Be done with it.
I mistated that. Paul should have been inserted, not Ryan.
Put the bill PAUL is talking about back up for a vote. Be done with it.
They passed it last year.
Totally agree with you!!
If the vote fails, Trump comes out and says he will move on to a tax break, and they can fix Obamacare when it fails and takes a huge part of the US economy.
Next.
It’s a ballsy move and he can point to a congress unable to compromise. Six months from now the dems will come crawling to fix it. And they will be willing to work.
Not anymore. If you think he's still going to get anything done you're dreaming.
The Trump revolution was murdered by "conservatives"
Thanks HeshTesh.
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