we need to slow down and get it right. like mom used to say, you rush and you make mistakes. democrats are going to continue in their head-long rush to pass a government takeover of health care. from where i stand and frankly many republican senators stand who are troubled by the pace is of concern. we should have had more time to digest it. i guess history has a funny way of repeating itself. what a difference eight years doesn t make. republicans today sounding a lot like republicans back in 2009 on health care reform. only this time, they are battling themselves. can president trump and house speaker paul ryan bring their own party on board? this as one new report says at least 15 million people, joe, will lose their health care coverage under the new gop plan. this morning, we are going to speak live with the u.s. secretary of health and human services dr. tom price.
plus, the man responsible for whipping votes in the house, republican congressman steve scalise and con
Today? so the freedom caucus is 30 or so members of the house of representatives. that is enough. when the republicans have a 23-seat majority in the house, that is enough to blockade any bill that comes through. so ryan and company tried everything that they can think of to get the freedom caucus on board to vote for something on immigration. no, not unless it was a hard line bill. so they were stuck. so moderates were frustrated. the freedom caucus holding everybody hostage, the moderates say what can we do about it? they started circulating a petition, let s get something out there. in the house, which is a place where if you can get members to sign on the line, you can get it out on the floor. ryan said don t, i m begging you, don t. i promise you we will have legislation, a vote this week or next week. it s going to happen. the president walks out today and in the process of feeding a
Like rand paul say i vote for tax cuts and vote for spending cuts right now after. because he didn t get them, he didn t support the spending bill and a lot of freedom caucus members as well. mark lavigne is disgusted. again, president trump got it through. he s going to claim it as a victory because he wanted to increase military spending. this is where the agenda gets stalled. i posit without any solution on immigration they can t get to anything else on the agenda any way and they re in quick sand. there s no infrastructure. unless you re willing to not have a majority of the majority on the house floor and do bills with democrats with thus far the leadership has refused to do, you re not going to get criminal justice reform, or infrastructure or anything. and that s something they haven t been willing to do. they want the freedom caucus on
Schumer. chuck schumer immediately is hearing from his base. but the reality is this all goes back to the president of the united states who keeps flirting with daca and immigration ideas that simply can t pass the house of representatives. and so he might work with the senate on this. mitch mcconnell might allow votes on this, but even if it passes the senate, which i m not sure i trust mitch mcconnell that it would pass the senate, the house is so far away that three weeks from now we ll end up in the exact same situation. and the silver lining for progressives and democrats is that anger that is providing the energy into the november is still there and be there much stronger three weeks from now. can donald trump, if he came out with a very clear position on this issue, a very clearly in support of whatever the senate may come up with, if they do come up with a bipartisan agreement on immigration, on daca, could he actually have influence in the house to get paul ryan on board, to
Every part of an issue. will democrats get on board? know anything it s pretty funny that they are so concerned about the deficit considering i just spent our money. i m surprised that they got the freedom caucus on board so fast. there seems to be a lot of resist from people and i don t think they ll be able to get them on board. a lot of them have reelection coming up, so maybe that puts them toward the middle. a lot of these calls for regular order, i don t think it can happen. there is such an ideology problem when it comes to democrats or republicans on this issue. sandra: trish, you have been so passionate about this and wanting to get this done. is this the right plan? trish: it s better than what we ve got. simplified because it s highly complicated right now. we need to start rewarding