Posted on 03/26/2017 1:11:20 PM PDT by Mariner
Fresh off a defeat on U.S. healthcare legislation, the White House warned rebellious conservative lawmakers that they should get behind President Donald Trump's agenda or he may bypass them on future legislative fights, including tax reform.
The threat by White House chief of staff Reince Priebus to build a broad coalition on tax reform that could include moderate Democrats came as the Republican head of the tax-writing committee in the House of Representatives said he hoped to move a tax bill through his panel this spring.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said his committee had been working on tax reform in parallel with the failed healthcare reform push.
"We've never stopped working," Brady told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo." "We will continue to make improvements."
Brady said the committee plans to move on the bill in the spring. He said he wanted the House blueprint to be the basis for Trump's tax reform plan rather than have competing versions from Treasury and the White House.
Both Trump and Priebus have scolded hardline conservatives who rejected legislation backed by the White House to overhaul Obamacare.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Priebus held out the possibility of working with moderate Democrats as well as Republicans to pass other aspects of Trump's agenda, such as his proposed budget, the revamp of the tax code and a renewed effort at healthcare reform.
"If we can come up with a bill that accomplishes the goals of the president with Republicans alone, we'll take it and we'll move forward with it," Priebus said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Good grief folks, you’ve gone to the dark side.
Nope. We are on the POTUS side. Sad to see the “true conservatives” just stood with Nancy Pelosi. Hard to fault POTUS for looking for some votes in the Dem caucus too.
Am with you. Note how he used vets as a campaign backdrop (actually held a fund raiser for vets while dodging one of the debates). Didn't take him long to show his true colors.
Maybe you’re right AC! :-D
I’ve not given up, and am not trying to be pessimistic, just a tad frustrated. But I guess we all are for different reasons.
**On a positive note...The Keystone Pipeline is a go!**
Only about 20 individual Republicans chose not to. Those 20 or so representatives did what they thought was right, but it is also not wrong to compromise and live to fight another day.
Lets all hope this article is NOT true and Trump will not be aligning with RINOs and Democrats instead of conservatives. I will wait and see what happens.
Yes, Ryan just stood with her to offer up Obamacare light.
Vote for it. We’ll see what comes of it later...
Sound familiar?
Freedom Caucus voted to put Paul Ryan in charge, not Trump.
Now why would they do that knowing Ryan is a big fat RINO.
Our side always loses because we all want what we want and we want it now. There is no glue holding us together.
Exactly. I have to chuckle at this idea of replacing Ryan. As if there is any chance we’ll get anybody substantially better. That is a hilarious proposition because the beltway GOP has shown time again what they are: hot garbage.
“Must be a mistake that he’s not listed. Right? “
Yup...I’m pretty sure the guy would not say it if it wasn’t true.
You’ll have “deficit hawks” opposing him on taxes and infrastructure and “compassionate Conservatives” opposing him on immigration. He’ll get nothing done if he sticks to Republicans alone
Exactly. And now the corportists and blue state RINOs are emboldened to “resist” his agenda. POTUS’s base has got to hang together or we will hang separately. It’s that simple.
I continue to think that Ryan and possibly Priebus worked on him to explain this was the only way to do this.
It wasn’t.
So you would rather see all the things he has done so far reversed.
Got it.
My differences with him remain focused on this issue. I happen to think we did exactly the right thing by voting him in.
“He does not care what Edmond Burke, Adam Smith or Milton Friedman have to say on any matter whatsoever. “
And neither does about 85% of the electorate.
Make that 99% of the electorate.
That same bill would lose by over 400 votes in the House today.
You don't know that. Perhaps after Ryan and Trump twist their arms.
What we do know is that the bill passed a little over a year ago.
I don't think so.
I'm sure Nancy Pelosi was secretly BEGGING the Republicans to come up with some half-assed "fix" to Obamacare. The Democrat Party has suffered disastrous losses all over the U.S. since she forced that pile of sh!t through Congress in 2010.
“Our side always loses because we all want what we want and we want it now. There is no glue holding us together.”
True...for better or worse(always worse) the Democrats always stick together.
“Hahaha, ok there buddy. Enjoy the air up there.”
I’m personally getting sick of the HFC fanboys shooting off their mouths as if they all speak for us myself.
Now while I GET why they voted the way they did, I would advise them to get off the pedestal because short of this that group has been little more than a collection of do-nothings and big talkers.
I expect them to get together with Trump on tax reform in a big way or else I will gladly wash my hands of them myself.
We have a sizable group on this forum who have now decided to trash the Freedom Caucus.
Donald J. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton and her constition destroying SCOTUS. Please refresh my memory: what is this “freedom caucus” hanging their hat on other than accomplish nothing beltway kabuki.
Considering the bill could not pass, it had to be at least 25 or 30.
Many said he lost 20+ on BOTH sides of the ideological spectrum in the caucus.
The Republicans, alone, appear unable to advance legislation.
Whereas Democrats know how to crack the whip and obtain 100% of their caucus whenever they need it.
“For me all actions are viewed thru the prism of getting as much as you can incrementally and thinking long term.”
I totally agree. Where the country is didn’t happen overnight. It took decades of incremental change, with one exception: Obama. He screwed a lot up in less than a decade. And a lot of it was allowed to occur because of a timid corrupt GOP.
I don’t think the Republicans in Congress like being in charge. Now they have to work for a living. So far, they are proving themselves at best inept, at worst duplicitous.
To own is to put one’s name on something and vouch for it. I might do that if the poison were to be taken out of the product. But if I believed the poisonous or harmful parts were still in there, I would never put my name or brand on it which would be lying to people and telling them, “this is pretty much okay and you can count on that because my name is on it. “
Did the bill allow buying insurance across state lines? Did it keep 26-year-olds on it? Did it take out the most objectionable parts? Real questions that I don’t know the true answers to. If it got rid of the really bad stuff, I agree with you. If not, I don’t.
Maybe Ryan could have brought people in ahead of time, gotten input and worked behind the scenes before putting it out there and trying to force issues in a binary way and threaten them.
A “no exemptions” component might have won some people over. If it is good for us, it is good for them and probably vice-versa. Conservatives have been burned by things done in stages. They give in and then the other stages that give them their points just don’t happen.
“Republicans in the House had a chance to align with him and get much of what they desire. They chose not to.”
Well, Republicans also can align themselves with McCain, Grahamnesty, Collins, Murkowski, Charlie Dent, et al. Is that the way forward you advocate?
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