times, quote, he was pleased to have it all behind him. it s enough already. though the president trieto pin some blame on democrats. the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer because now they own obamacare. mr. trump also implied he might eventually have to work with democrats to fix the law. it is unlikely to happen any time soon, eager to talk about anything else, the president spent his weekly address talking not about health care, not about tax reform, not about infrastructure, but about exploring space. this week in the company of astronauts i was honored to sign the nasa transition authorization act right into law. the blame game is in full swing. the president tweeted this just a few minutes ago. democrats are smiling in d.c., and the freedom caucus with the help of club for growth and heritage have saved planned parenthood and o-care while some
pin some blame on democrats. the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer because now they own obamacare. mr. trump also implied he might eventually have to work with democrats to fix the law. it is unlikely to happen any time soon, eager to talk about anything else, the president spent his weekly address talking not about health care, not about tax reform, not about infrastructure, but about exploring space. this week in the company of astronauts i was honored to sign the nasa transition authoration act right into law. the blame game is in full swing. the president tweeted this just a few minutes ago. democrats are smiling in d.c., and the freedom caucus with the help of club for growth and heritage have saved planned parenthood and o-care while some republicans are blaming the white house and others are pointing at speaker ryan and still others like the president is pinning the fault on the freedom caucus.
people are getting confused about what you can and cannot put in a reconciliation bill. these are members of congress, they know what a reconciliation bill is. we re finding that some don t. all the focus, all eyes on the house, it s going to be a major battle on the senate side. that s where they re going to have to get all the republicans to be on board. the democrats united against battling this. we heard from a key conservative, tom cotton this morning who sent out this flurry of tweets here. i want to read a couple to you. house health care bill, can t pass senate without major changes to my friends in house. pause, start over, get it right, don t get it fast. gop shouldn t act like dems did in o care, no excuse to release bill monday night, start voting wednesday with no budget estimate. then he goes on to say what that the terse in the long run is better, more affordable health care for americans, not house leaders arbitrary legislative calend
the substance but i have one more question about the process. senator tom cotton said to my friends in the house pause, start over, get it right. don t get it fast. the gop shouldn t act like dems did on o-care. no excuse to release the bill monday night and start voting wednesday with no budget estimate. do you agree with senator tom cotton that the white house and speaker ryan are choosing speed over accuracy. i hear what he has to say and i think it s got merit to consider this but also the white house and the leadership has had a discussion about how they want the timing of this to work so they rolled this bill out and we should have had more time to digest it. i d have rather seen it out there for a week or ten days. that isn t much time for anybody to bring amendments and try to make the change and we don t get amendments passed unless we get public support for that and it takes time for the organizations from outside to weigh in. this is the agenda we have and leadership wants
already proving to be very thorny. nick, do you think they understand how much this is going to cost them? they can go back and say congratulations we repealed obamacare but the price tag on that, to avoid a massive political blowback will be in the billions. look. if you keep the popular part which is forcing insurers to accept sick people but don t keep the unpopular part, which is making healthy people sign up you create a huge liability for their insurers and tick them off. i think one thing that they have going for them people on o-care and don t know they are on o-care and getting into the medicaid expansion in indiana with mike pence and aren t aware the health care they are getting now is through president obama s health care reform which they hate. there is so much confusion about what this program is and how it works and who it serves. a certain kind of cloud of war that could help them in the