Posted on 04/04/2017 1:58:51 PM PDT by drewh
Vice President Mike Pence has offered to broker a peace accord with the White House and the House Freedom Caucus, a move that could lead the small but powerful faction of Congress to eventually support President Trump’s health-care overhaul, the FOX Business Network has learned.
The president’s health care initiative failed two weeks ago amid criticism from the Freedom Caucus—a fiscally conservative faction inside the House GOP – that it didn’t include enough free-market initiatives to effectively reverse ObamaCare’s vast array of insurance mandates that form the current health care system.
Without the support of the 36-member Freedom Caucus, Speaker Paul Ryan decided not to bring the president’s bill to the floor of the House for a vote, effectively killing the measure at least for the immediate future.
In a meeting Monday night with the Freedom Caucus, Pence offered to broker a truce, and even apologized for the heated rhetoric coming out of the White House against individual members, according to people who were present at the meeting.
Pence’s statement came after the Caucus’s chairman, North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows, asked Pence to “address attacks coming from the White House” against the group, said one person in the room.
Pence, this person said, “Noted…I absolutely understand” the concerns of the Caucus about the attacks.
The person said Pence then apologized and offered to broker a peace between both sides. “Based on the conversation they had I very much think there will not be any more attacks on our members any time soon,” said one person at the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
This account was confirmed by Alyssa Farah, a spokeswoman for Meadows, who had no further comment. White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks didn’t immediately return a telephone call and email for comment
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trump and pence should not have taken sides
they should have told repuyblicans to work it out amonsgst themselves and get trump a bill to sign.
BTW I hope that trump realizes— most of the freedomn caucus would not knee jerk oppose trump. Where as ryan and his rinos want trump to fail. I think he sees that now though.
Just my humble opinion here ...
All the FC supporters here just don’t get it. Who cried mercy?? The FC, not Trump. This is pure Trump AOTD. Go read it, you might learn something.
... or he’s playing a deep game of chess
Good, the feud is ended, the work resumes.
Oh spare me all the 3D chess crap. Trump is doing pretty great but based on several of his nominations, and his support of ryancare, he’s far from a genius.
I’m glad to see the White House working with pretty much the only congress critters that are not pure political whores.
I would love to see a complete repeal. But Trump has always said “repeal and replace”. That said, I can live with a bill that cuts into ACA incrementally - in the right direction. I suspect the FC feels the same.
It’s a learning process...everyone take a deep breath!!
Hate to say I told you so, but that is here to stay baring a total economic collapse.
Getting things done is not the goal, getting the right things done is the goal.
Great. Let us know when America is EVER a church.
Quite frankly, if Pence was doing his job, there would be no need for an apology to anyone at this point.
He was the point person for this repeal and replacement, and it should never have been rolled out in the manner Ryan rolled it out.
Pence has been in Congress—he should have recognized Ryan was trying to steamroll Trump with horrible legislation.
This whole debacle could have been avoided.
The question remains why it was not.
Any fix will need to be an evolved fix. US healthcare is in way too critical a condition to be told to go on the street and fend for itself. It will need to be in hospital for months if not years.
Somehow the practicalities seem to pass the doctrinaires by, leading to fights of virtue signaling versus the possible.
Trump has to embrace this to get it passed.
Free market only or we shut it down again. No deal.
I agree but Trump doesn't.
It all makes sense if you consider how much easier Amnesty for dreamers and stimulus will be without HFC.
“The way I see it - Trump has continued to be too busy sucking up to RyanCare to be bother with tax code reform.”
Unrealistic expectations on your part. Did you really think Trump would move his entire agenda within 60 days?
Pop some popcorn and relax. Trump has moved the conservative agenda forward better in his first 75 days than so-called “conservatives” Bush I and Bush II did in 12 years.
As others have pointed out, I think the administration is divided into 2 camps: independent conservatives like Bannon and Sessions, and swamp minions (unfortunately, this probably includes the veep). The swamp minions would never side with the HFC on health care or anything else. I suspect that they had the prez’s ear on the first go round. Hopefully, the golf outing meeting with Rand will shape round 2.
I want this prez to succeed, but the Republic will not survive Democrat-lite anything.
Negotiations continuing apace. Pence in his starring role as Tom Hagen.
Next step....delivering an offer to the Ryano faction that they can’t refuse.
Not a fan of AHCA, but I think we’ll get as good of a deal as can be had.
Watch a maestro in action.
Tactical retreat for strategic victory.
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