With health care bill scuttled, Trump and Ryan gear up for revenge
FRIDAY, MAR 24, 2017 01:50 PM EDT
With health care bill scuttled, Trump and Ryan gear up for revenge
As health care bill goes down, GOP leaders prep payback plans against far-right Freedom Caucus (updated)
MATTHEW SHEFFIELD
Whether consciously intended or not, every group effort has its own ethos. For decades, the guiding principle of Donald Trump’s leadership style has been loyalty — to his enterprise and above all to him personally.
The far-right Republicans who comprise the Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives are about to learn this lesson the hard way, once the dust settles on the American Health Care Act, the joint effort of Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan to repeal and replace Obamacare.
The House of Representatives was scheduled to hold a vote on the bill early this afternoon but canceled those plans after it became evident that the GOP did not have enough votes for it to pass. This was the second time the leadership team had to scuttle a scheduled vote on the AHCA. The House was originally supposed to vote on it Thursday, the seventh anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act, the signature legislative achievement of former president Barack Obama.
GOP leaders saw support for the bill continue to collapse on Friday and accused Freedom Caucus members of trying to shift the goalposts of what they claim to want in the final version of the health care law.
Some Freedom Caucus members pushed the White House to insert provisions that would remove many of the most popular elements of the Affordable Care Act passed by Congress in 2010, including regulations that prohibit insurance companies from refusing customers based on pre-existing medical conditions and a rule that allows adults under age 26 to remain on their parents’ insurance policies.
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