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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPriebus & Bannon dispatched Lewandowski & Dave Bossie to press Sen. Mike Lee to support Senate healt
This scares me. That Lee -might cave.
Jeremy DiamondVerified account @JDiamond1
Priebus & Bannon dispatched Corey Lewandowski & Dave Bossie to press Sen. Mike Lee to support Senate healthcare bill
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Notice @POTUS isn't going out to whip votes. Why? B/c @realdonaldtrump is a ineffective loser. And @gop & @SenateMajLdr know it.
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What? Are they gonna break #Mike Lee's legs? @POTUS is a straight up mob boss. Shame on @GOP.
White House dispatches former campaign aides to help revive health care push
MJ Lee
By Jeremy Diamond and MJ Lee, CNN
Updated 4:57 PM ET, Wed July 19, 2017
Story highlights
Priebus and Bannon dispatched Lewandowski and Bossie to Capitol Hill
Lee on Monday night helped kill GOP hopes of passing the Senate's health care bill
Washington (CNN)Senate Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare were quickly sinking on Tuesday after one-too-many Republican senators voiced their opposition to the legislation being pushed by GOP leaders.
But the White House wasn't ready to abandon the bill that would repeal and immediately replace Obamacare, instead turning to trusted allies outside the administration to make another push.
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon on Tuesday dispatched former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and former deputy campaign manager David Bossie to Capitol Hill to meet with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, in an attempt to revive the health care reform bill Senate Republican leaders abandoned the same day, a White House official and source familiar with the meeting told CNN.
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Lewandowski and Bossie met with Lee, who on Monday night killed GOP hopes of passing the Senate's Obamacare replacement measure by announcing his opposition to the bill. The Lee meeting marked a new turn in the White House's struggling efforts to whip enough Senate GOP votes to repeal Obamacare and pass health care reform.
But when Lewandowski and Bossie sat down with Lee on Tuesday, the conversation focused not on the standalone repeal effort -- which Lee has said he would support -- but instead on addressing Lee's concerns with the Senate's replacement plan, a Lee aide said............................
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Priebus & Bannon dispatched Lewandowski & Dave Bossie to press Sen. Mike Lee to support Senate healt (Original Post)
riversedge
Jul 2017
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So . . . . . Mike . . . . dassa nice seat ya got dere in da Senate. Be a damn shame sumpin . . . .
Stinky The Clown
Jul 2017
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MattP
(3,304 posts)1. McCain isn't coming back before break
Stinky The Clown
(67,776 posts)2. So . . . . . Mike . . . . dassa nice seat ya got dere in da Senate. Be a damn shame sumpin . . . .
. . . . should happen to it, yanno?
OnDoutside
(19,949 posts)3. Lewandowski and Bossie ? Going for the intellectual argument then ....