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
and it sets us up in a good position for what we want to do nex ppt i think it really proved to everyone that a shutdown isn t the way that you do this and this isn t a negotiating tactic that s going to work. i think it s left the republicans bruised moving to the next phase. whatever he tries to pull after this in terms of executive a, it s clearly going to be a half measure, probably going to get stopped in court and not going to be satisfactory to his base no matter what. i like nancy pelosi. she s a leader. it s really about personal authority, prestige. you can t fire a member of congress. roosevelt couldn t even do that. when she did that little thing in the state of aunion. and it seems she was able to at least keep the people more aggressive in terms of ocasio-cortez and the others.
for four consecutive elections. they ll be up for re-election in two years and i can promise they ll have primary opponents who will say you didn t deliver. there will be great 30-second sound bites. who s sitting in the better seat is the president. he can say stew about it and call me. i m not convinced this isn t a negotiating tactic of his saying i m going to mover on to tax reform. he said i m moving to tax reform but he can t do the tax reform he wants to do because he doesn t have the money because they didn t repeal obamacare. he wants a border tax a lot of republicans oppose, then an infrastructure plan a lot of republicans oppose. he has to start winning. this is the democrats home advantage on health care because it is entitlements, government expansion. it s a subject that you guys feel a lot more taxes, we