Wanted to have them all in this same meeting in the same room here to discuss all this with the president. But still, even though the vote is scheduled for this evening, expected this evening, other republicans im talking to here and on capitol hill say they would nobt at all surprised if it was set aside or pushed back. That happens, thats a sign there is a big problem. John . Thats an understatement to say the least. Jeff zeleny at the white house. Lets bring it into the room. House Speaker Paul Ryan was supposed to speak to reporters this morning. Hes delayed that until this afternoon. Horse trading behind closed doors, wheeling and dealing, the very thing republicans criticize the democrats for doing when they passed obamacare but well put that aside for a second. What does this tell you that the president is meeting and gets a standing ovation from members of the House Freedom caucus who at the moment you can make the case are undermining the president on priority number one becau
buy them a la cart. they become unaffordable. are murkowski and collins going to be willing to vote for that. the moderates in the house. you move the bill to the right, it becomes a problem on the left. i ve seen about 30 members opposed. 15 in the freedom caucus, about 15 outside of that. those people are on the left and the more changes you make in terms of maternity leave and things like that. we ve seen four or five members on the left side of the party. they re voting no in the last couple of days. that s where the draining of votes is coming from. what is the president willing to do to get this done. this is the guy who said i can do this. i can cut these deals. even now the changes they ve made so far. they d already agreed to add a work requirement on medicaid. let states pick block grants for the medicaid funding if they wanted to. ban new states. 30-plus states have already expanded medicaid.