The speaker warned him off of that. Made very clear that the individuals that would be voting for this bill were many of the individuals that helped republicans secure and maintain the majority, told them it Wasnt The Best idea. That said, there was still a House Freedom caucus meeting that was scheduled with tom price and nick mulvaney. They allowed that to happen after it was clear after the meeting there would be no movement with the conservatives, the House Freedom caucus members. The call was made. President trump called the speaker and told him clearly it was time to pull the bill and that is exactly what happened and the ramifications of that arent just micro, not just this week or this bill. They are health care, period. Obamacare stands not just for now, not just for the next couple months butter for the foreseeable future. A lot of republicans talked about if this goes down maybe kind of go piecemeal, piece by piece, try to do this in smaller chunks than all at once but is th
i don t know how much of a useful frame that is. some of them for sure he s going after big obamacare legacies, but we know about this president and his advisers. a big board in the white house. these were our big campaign promises he we hit every time. doesn t have a lot to the with obama like the wall or getting out of nafta. that s not an obama initiative. the president is keyed in on fix his campaign promises. some of them even extend obama things like obama was out trying to tell nato members they need to pay more and these kind of things, trump is doubling down on that and making it more of a rhetorical thing. i think it s more about fulfilling campaign promises and negotiating and making deals. that s how his brain works. if you think about it only in terms of unraveling obama s legacy i think that sort of takes the ball away from the flaws in obamacare. obamacare right now requires the political system to constantly bail it out and throw fixes to it. it requires the good fait
obamacare? yeah. most congressional republicans watching the speech would probably say privately, mr. president, this was so two weeks ago. we have so moved on from big obamacare repeal and replace efforts, and when you put up that chart, the list of things republicans hoped to accomplish by this point or least made headway on, it has to be daunting, because repeal and replace failed in a dramatic way. you know, when you talk to house members, talk to senators, the thing they have been saying all year long is that the ramification of failing on health care is then you lose the political momentum so important to tackle something else next. something like tax reform. something like infrastructure, which, again, we know is going to be very, very tough for these republicans anyway. and now they re sort of, they lost the air in the balloon. i guess the balloon that didn t even exist in the first place. and remember excuse me me one second. obamacare was supposed to be easy. the presid
that s the power of and. nothing in life is easy. but congress must not give in. they must not give up, but instead, congress must get to work and deliver americans the great health care that they deserve. call your congressman. call your senators. call everybody. get them to have the guts to vote to repeal and replace obamacare. a passion from president trump last night urging his crowd there in west virginia to stick with him in the obamacare repeal fight, but congress is not listening to the president. its home for summer vacation. the president heading off to his new jersey golf resort this afternoon as well. this was to be the gop s big year. a deal-making president and
imagine if you brought this report card home from school broke for summer? obamacare repeal. fail. tax reform, incomplete. infrastructure, incomplete. raise the debt ceiling. incomplete. pass a budget. incomplete. no wonder the president s poll numbers are in the tank and congress gets even lower ratings. 10 % of americans approve of the job congress is doing. 10 %. and 84% disapprove. if you think republican voters are more patient with the republican congress, think again. only 14% of republicans approve of congressional performance. 80% disapprove. it does remind you of your childhood, report card you wanted to crumble and sneak in the backpack and home mom didn t ask. they re home. they have to be all pretty disappointed with the performance. the question, what do they come back with? and to the president s point, i don t see any indication senator republicans are going to come back from summer vacation and say, let s do that again, on