Pass Health Bill or Lose Your Job, Trump Tells Holdouts

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President Trump and Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, arriving for a meeting with House Republicans at the Capitol on Tuesday

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday turned up the pressure on recalcitrant Republicans to support a sweeping bill to overhaul the health care system, threatening wavering lawmakers in his party with political payback if they failed to get behind a measure that has become an early test of his negotiating power.

In a series of meetings and phone calls at the White House and on Capitol Hill, Mr. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Republican congressional leaders haggled with holdouts over issues including regulatory details and Cuba policy as they struggled to assemble a majority to support a bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The legislation is scheduled for a floor vote in the House on Thursday.

But at a private meeting with House Republicans at the Capitol, the president also delivered a blunt warning that many of those present would lose their seats in next year’s midterm congressional elections if the effort failed.

“I’m going to come after you,” Mr. Trump told Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina, a prime holdout and the chairman of the conservative Freedom Caucus, a hotbed of concern about the legislation, according to several people in the room who described his comments on condition of anonymity because the session was private. “I believe Mark and his group will come along, because honestly, a loss is not acceptable, folks.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/us/politics/house-republicans-health-care-donald-trump.html?_r=0

[Chasstev365]

1. Great thing to tell people who could make or break him at impeachment hearings!

Yet again, the man is a complete dumbass!

[roamer65]

2. I'm sure they've done polling in their districts.

They know the more they resist Dump, the better chance they have to be re-elected in 2018.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Clever

They refuse to vote for it, he comes after them in 2018 (assuming he's still around) which could provide an opening for Dems to win in the end. They vote for it, Dems can rake them over the coals in 2018. Seems like a lose-lose proposition. Plus, if it fails in the House, it could help take Ryan down with it.

[Retrograde]

4. Does he think he can fire members of Congress?

Hasn't anyone told Donnie that this isn't a scripted "reality" show? And that Congress thinks they're a co-equal branch of the government?

[Warpy]

5. Who the fuck does he think he is?

"You're fired" doesn't work for Congress or the Justice Department. Even Ryan's threat of making sure they have primary opponents isn't going to work if they campaign on keeping the ACA, no primary opponent who wants to gut health care to give tax cuts to billionaires is going to win.

There's going to be carnage in 2018 if they pass this turkey and strip millions of people of access to health care. The few smarter Republicans understand this.

[SHRED]

7. And they'll be carnage of they don't...lol

[SHRED]

6. Paper Tiger

[Barack_America]

8. Trump, please. You're not going to be around to primary shit.

And they know it.

The title should correctly read, "Pass Health Bill AND Lose Your Job..."