Top Trump aide calls for primary challenge to Freedom Caucus member Amash

Speaker of the House John Boehner, who was the top Republican officeholder during much of Barack Obama’s presidency, constantly grappled with rebellious House members right up until he was forced from the speakership in September 2015.

To govern, House Republicans must be strategic, seizing every possible victory as one more step toward our objective, instead of expecting to accomplish every goal with one swift move.

“We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!”, Trump wrote in his 9:07AM tweet.

In early evidence Trump is uninterested in severe disruptions, Ryan said last week that the administration will for now continue financing $7 billion-a-year in subsidies for deductibles and co-payments for over 6 million low-income people.

President Donald Trump has indicated that he expects the law to “explode”.

There are many fine people in the Freedom Caucus.

That’s the hope for these Freedom Caucus members: They want to work with the President to come up with a bill that does more to repeal and replace Obamacare.

BENNETT: The Freedom Caucus is small, but when it acts as a block against legislation it opposes, it’s big enough to exploit the Republican Party slim majority in the House, unnerving House leadership.

Trump and his White House advisers have been frustrated by the intransigence of Freedom Caucus members, led by Rep. Mark Meadows (R., N.C.).

On Thursday morning, Trump tweeted that the congressional caucus of conservative members of the House of Representatives is on track to harm “the entire Republican agenda”.

Congressman Barton says the health care fight was instructive since most Freedom Caucus members are relatively recent arrivals to Capitol Hill, having been elected in 2010 or later.

In the districts of the bill’s foes, Republican voters and activists faulted Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

Note to President Donald Trump and House Republicans: People really don’t like your approach to overhauling America’s health care.

In interviews with 10 of the roughly three dozen House Freedom Caucus members, the lawmakers said they were eager to put aside tensions over the healthcare debacle and seek common ground on tax reform. Yet all were noticeably absent during the heated battle over Trump’s first legislative agenda item, repealing and replacing the nation’s health care law.

Lack of Republican buy-in ultimately doomed the bill.

Shea Cox, a 21-year-old computer science major from Shelbyville, Tennessee, said the bill failed because Ryan rushed what Cox called a “complete hack job” that “looked nearly exactly like “Obamacare” with a couple of things taken out”.

President Obama’s Affordable Care Act allows Americans age 26 or younger to remain on their parents’ health insurance plans.

The negative views in the poll make any new GOP effort embracing pieces of the crumbled legislation potentially perilous for the party. “Absolutely. I think they’re going to have to do what the constituents want”, he said. Because young people are less prone to injury and illness, older Americans with healthcare plans will be charged about five times more than their younger counterparts.

“They want everything their way”, Dunn says of the Freedom Caucus. “And they asked me to keep that quiet because they were still negotiating some details and they weren’t sure if the bill was going to get pulled or not – there was some talk about that that morning – and I agreed to do that”. This is the first time they are serving with a Republican in the White House to sign bills they might pass.