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By David Weigel, Kelsey Snell and Robert Costa March 21 at 3:04 PM
President Trump stormed Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell the House Republican leaderships plan to overhaul the health-care system, warning his party that not passing the legislation would yield a political crisis and sweeping electoral defeats.
The president addressed a closed-door meeting of House Republicans days before the measure is expected to come to a vote on the House floor.
Trump used both charm and admonishment as he made his case, reassuring skittish members that they would gain seats in Congress if the bill passed and singling out Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the chairman of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, in front of colleagues.
Im gonna come after you, but I know I wont have to, because I know youll vote yes, Trump said, according to several Republican lawmakers who attended the meeting. Honestly, a loss is not acceptable, folks.
For Trump, who talked up the House bill the previous evening at a raucous rally in Kentucky, the presentation was the latest example of his mounting urgency to secure a major legislative victory in the early months of his presidency and repeal the signature law of President Barack Obama.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trump-arrives-on-capitol-hill-to-sell-house-gop-health-care-package/2017/03/21/e8ede3d2-0e2b-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html?utm_term=.4225fd090c64
malaise
(269,020 posts)was under investigation
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)town.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Trump is further tying himself to TrumpCare and he's going to be sucked down with the sinking ship along with Ryan.
Plan is to pass in the house, do whatever is necessary to get it past the Senate, then bring back to the house and challenge all GOP reps to say no.
That strategy stinks. Any Obamacare repeal screws the working and middle class. The GOP probably thinks their media control can be used to blame bad TrumpCare effects on Obama.
It's our job to make sure the GOP can't do that.
Initech
(100,079 posts)You're only furthering the impeachment cause!
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)What a, huge POS
Hekate
(90,704 posts)Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)He is no threat to anyone.