The jordan forces wanted him to do. They wanted him to vote present but he voted for mccarthy. That is essentially a no vote on jordan. The next vote that were going to be dipping in for will be Congressman Ken Buck, another nay on jordan. His issue also different, kasie hunt, again, not a moderate against jordan, ken buck a very conservative republican from colorado, his issue is elections and whether or not joe biden actually won the election fair and square. Big picture, jake, i just think we are watching the formal installation of donald trump. There have been so many ways in which this has happened, but this is a moment crystallizing it for me, as the current Singular Entity republican the Republican Party, this is an institution whose glass doors were broken. There were gun shots fired outside this chamber. The members had to evacuate in gas masks on january 6th of 2021, when a protrump mob stormed the place and as we were discussing before, jim jordan was and jamie reported abou
bad thing and replacing gary cohn will be easy. believe me, everybody wants to work in the white house. they all want a piece of that oval office. they want a piece of the west wing. so many people want to come in. i could take any position in the white house, and i ll have a choice of the ten top people having to do with that position. everybody wants to be there. and they love this white house because we have energy like rarely before. that s to be polite, not true. you get a lot hlot of laughs an even more hell nos when you call around town and ask seasoned republicans if they re open to joining team trump. and there s this stat. the brookings institution says the trump administration has seen a 43% staff turnover in 13 months. it affects policy. it affects personnel. it affects just about everything, including the politics in the zeitgeist of the republican party. what he says is not true. there are not people lining up
you d have to combine those but there are i would call them the hell nos. that s what thomas massey has been saying about this in the freedom caucus, people who are simply unlikely to ever budge. i think if the president can crack a deal with the freedom caucus in this meeting, the question about our whip counts will be do the moderates add up with the hell nos to get us past 22 no votes. if the freedom caucus goes, it s going to be a lot easier for the speaker to do it but still on the edge. kasie, thanks for that. kasie hunt at capitol hill. we want to talk more now about obamacare s so-called essential health benefits that may now be in jeopardy. republicans leaders are reportedly considering eliminating those benefits to win over those hell no votes casey was just talking about. those include about ten different things, pregnancy, maternity, newborn care, mental health, prescription drugs, outpatient care, hospitalization, emergency room,