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brooklynite

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Sat Mar 25, 2017, 01:40 PM Mar 2017

Inside the Trumpcare meltdown [View all]

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Source: Axios

When the balky hardliners of the House Freedom Caucus visited the White House earlier this week, this was Steve Bannon's opening line, according to people in the conference room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building:

Guys, look. This is not a discussion. This is not a debate. You have no choice but to vote for this bill.


Bannon's point was: This is the Republican platform. You're the conservative wing of the Republican Party. But people in the room were put off by the dictatorial mindset.

One of the members replied: "You know, the last time someone ordered me to something, I was 18 years old. And it was my daddy. And I didn't listen to him, either."

Read more: https://www.axios.com/inside-the-trumpcare-meltdown-2329417172.html
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