Trump's decision on health care law puts spotlight on Mulvaney
President Trump’s decision to call for ObamaCare’s complete dismantling in court is shining the spotlight on Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff who reportedly pushed for the action.
Mulvaney, a former member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, argued in favor of backing a lawsuit to nullify the Affordable Care Act during a White House meeting with other officials, according to two published reports.
The intervention in a case brought by attorneys general from more than a dozen GOP states has frustrated congressional Republicans by handing a new campaign argument to Democrats — just as that party was staggering from the end of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.
A few of those frustrated Republicans see a pattern: The House Freedom Caucus pushing the GOP into a compromising political fix.
As a tactic this strikes me as one that is unlikely to be successful, much like the government shutdown in 2013,” said Michael Steel, a onetime aide to former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who frequently clashed with Mulvaney and the Freedom Caucus.
The Freedom Caucus helped set up the 2013 government shutdown and also backed Trump’s partial shutdown of the government earlier this year over his demands for border wall funding. Its take-no-prisoners approach to governing has frequently rubbed other Republicans the wrong way.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/436158-trumps-decision-on-health-care-law-puts-spotlight-on-mulvaney
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