Americans dislike GOP’s, Trump’s plan on health care

Rep. Dave Brat, a Freedom Caucus member from Virginia, told reporters that he’s not going to weigh into drama.

And one member of the conservative Freedom Caucus that helped scuttle the bill, Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Alabama, said he didn’t know if Republicans could come together. “They want us to fix it”, noting that the Republican health care bill had only 17 percent support in a recent national poll by Quinnipiac University.

Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky conservative firebrand, also weighed in on Trump’s Twitter threat. “Do not worry!” President Trump tweeted Saturday. They’d be skeptical, and it’d be up to Trump to make the sale – something he didn’t do the first go-round with health care.

Following Trump’s tweet, several Republican members of Congress also served up pointed pushback, with Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky mocking, “It’s a swamp not a hot tub”.

“I’m trying to get this bill passed”, Ryan said on CBS’s “This Morning“.

Trump had previously accused Freedom Caucus members of snatching “defeat from the jaws of victory” with their opposition to Republican healthcare legislation he supported as he tried to replace Obamacare.

President Donald Trump fired another warning shot at members of his own party on Thursday morning.

Two Republican lawmakers, describing plans on the condition of anonymity, said Wednesday that House leaders would consider working into the weekend, although it was unclear what changes would be made to the Republicans’ health bill.

A major part of the problem is that the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries have spent fortunes on misinformation campaigns that have convinced many consumers that national health care would be a nightmare, even as seniors happily enroll in Medicare. No shame, Mr. President.

“The only way for us to govern and deliver on our promises is for Republicans not to turn the cannons on each other but stand united behind shared principles”, Cruz said. “Nearly everyone succumbs to the DC establishment”. Now, some Freedom Caucus members are reassessing their no-compromise brand of conservatism, as their tactics fuel fresh resentment within the GOP. Republican Representative David Schweikert of Arizona, a Freedom Caucus lawmaker who sits on the tax-writing House of Representative Ways and Means Committee, could emerge as a bridge between the conservative faction and House leaders.

“There is a better way to negotiate a positive outcome than for the president to use the approach of lumping the Freedom Caucus in with Democrats, setting them up as the enemy of the people”, said JoAnn Fleming, the Texas-based executive director of Grassroots America, who has deep contacts throughout the Texas grass-roots conservative movement.

Democrats say they want to keep tuition costs down for the next two years. They will agree to make the necessary tweaks to shore up Obamacare, but will agree to nothing more, knowing that Trump and Republicans will own all of the political fallout if people get hurt. Republicans have been in their super majority of power in the Oval Office, House and Senate for a mere three months. House leadership has since said they’ll try again to get rid of Obamacare, though there’s no concrete plan to do so.

“It’s very understandable that the president is frustrated that we haven’t gotten to where we need to go because this is something we all said we would do”. “This is a can-do President, who’s a businessman, who wants to get things done”.

Trump’s effort last week to win approval of the Republican replacement bill for Obamacare collapsed when hard-right conservatives and some centrist Republicans objected to the measure.

NPR’s Susan Davis noted Tuesday that congressional Republicans are insisting they are closer now to passing health care than they were Friday and aren’t giving up, reversing course on the tone Ryan took Friday that Obamacare is now “the law of the land”.