brit convicted of hate crimes caused a diplomatic rift with the british prime minister. plus his claim that president obama wiretapped trump tower. yet the one that may come back to haunt him the most, taunting fired fbi director james comey. better hope there are no tapes of our conversations. the hands down biggest 2017 trump defeat, failure to repeal and replace obamacare. john mccain s dramatic no vote sealed its fate. but republicans were split on how to fulfill their obamacare repeal promise. one that helped them win control of government. that loss made president trump and hill republicans quest for tax reform a political life or death mission. must pass legislation. tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. and it worked. people are going to be very, very happy. they re going to get tremendous, tremendous tax cuts.
really consequential posts, like unprecedented attacks on his own party leadership and head-scratching tweets, this anti-muslim video caused a diplomatic rift with the british prime minister. plus, his claim that president obama wiretapped trump tower. yet the one that may come back to haunt him the most, taunting fired fbi director james comey. better hope there are no tapes of our conversations. the hands-down biggest 2017 trump defeat, failure to repeal and replace obamacare. replace obamacare. republicans were split how to fulfill their obamacare repeal promise. help them win their control of government. that loss made the quest for tax reform a political life or death mission. must pass legislation. tax cuts and jobs act as
repeal promise. the words you hear from the president say he is counting the no votes. john mccain is a no. susan collins is most likely a no. and lisa murkowski says she has many concerns. conservatives are leaning no s, so there is a big scramble to rewrite that bill with the deadline ahead. some call them routine changes, others sweeteners, and they think they can flat out buy votes for some over others. the changes that were made in this bill, and nothing gets the pulse pounding looking over 146 pages of legislative text at 10:00 p.m. on a sunday night, but the changes are subtle. take lisa murkowski, for example. a as you noted, still undecided about this bill. the state of alaska would get a
president trump is keeping the health care heat on republican senators and annoying the republican leadership in the process. in a series of tweets over the weekend and continuing this morning the president said republican senators look like fools for failing to keep their repeal promise. he urged them to try again. then upped the ante threatening to cut off tlol payments, he calls them bailout not only helping lower income americans and help cover members of congress. he s going to make that decision this week and that s a decision that only he can make. now, stopping those subsidies would be a risky play by the president. it really would be detrimental to some of the most vulnerable citizens of those payments, if those payments were cut off. listen here, the trump budget director mick mulvaney says the senate should not move on to tax reform or anything else until it makes good on obamacare repeal. you promise folks you d do think seven years and cannot go back on that.