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On this, Trump's plan falls in line with House Speaker Paul Ryan, who acknowledged Friday that the Republican loss on healthcare makes tax reform more hard but still doable. President Trump is "moving on" from health care after the House scuttled a planned Friday afternoon vote on the White House-backed American Health Care Act, says a senior White House aide.
President Trump avoided discussing policy details during a Thursday meeting with the House Freedom Caucus on the ObamaCare repeal bill, Politico reported Saturday. Trump met with members of the ultra-conservative lawmaker group in his push to whip up votes for the American Health Care Act .
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., left, react at a joke from Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., center, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Marc... . FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2017, file photo photo, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin listens at right as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on the Federal budget in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washing... .
He'd been greeted with a standing ovation - one of his favorite measures of success - when he entered the Roosevelt Room on Thursday to meet with members of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus. After seven years of promises, the president said Republicans had reached a crucial moment to repeal and replace the "Obamacare" health care law.
One extra day could not buy President Donald Trump and his Republican Congress the first major legislative victory they needed to set the tone for the new administration. Republicans canceled a crucial health care bill vote at the last minute Friday rather than lose a battle of numbers on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
In a week that felt like a month, Americans got a clear view of President Trump's governing style and also of his fabled dealmaking approach . Or rather, I should say, Trump got a good sense of what governing is like - hard, hard, hard.
House Speaker Paul Ryan sensationally pulled his Obamacare repeal bill from the floor on Friday, a day after President Donald Trump had threatened to walk away from health care reform if he didn't get a vote. After a dramatic day on Capitol Hill, Ryan rushed from the White House to Capitol Hill to tell Trump he did not have the votes to pass the measure, the culmination of seven years of Republican efforts to eradicate President Barack Obama's proudest domestic achievement.
In a gamble with monumental political stakes, Republicans set course for a climactic House vote on their health care overhaul after President Donald Trump claimed he was finished negotiating with GOP holdouts and determined to pursue the rest of his agenda, win or lose. House Speaker Paul Ryan set the showdown for Friday, following a nighttime Capitol meeting at which top White House officials told GOP lawmakers that Trump had decided the time for talk was over.
Rep. Andy Biggs is the latest to announce he intends to vote against the GOP health care bill, bringing the number of House Republicans in that camp to 35. Only 22 no votes are needed for the measure to be rejected in that chamber. 12:56 a.m.: The House Rules Committee will meet Friday at 7 a.m. to discuss the Republican health care bill.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events "During the phaseout, we should implement work requirements for healthy working-age adults in the Medicaid expansion population. Obamacare overextended Medicaid beyond those people that the program was intended to serve - the disabled elderly, pregnant women and needy children.
GOP House leaders delayed their planned vote Thursday on a long-promised bill to repeal and replace "Obamacare," in a stinging setback for House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump in their first major legislative test. The decision came after Trump, who ran as a master dealmaker, failed to reach agreement with a bloc of rebellious conservatives.
In a major setback for Ryan and Trump, House is forced to delay ACHA vote amid scramble for more support The Republican rush to repeal Obamacare came to an abrupt halt on Thursday after negotiations between two different wings of the party stalled. As a result, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and his leadership team announced that they had canceled a vote on the American Health Care Act that was supposed to take place Thursday evening.
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks in support for the Republican health care bill during a TV interview in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 22, 2017.
After hours of negotiations that featured personal intervention by President Donald Trump, Republican leaders in the Congress were forced to back off a planned vote on a GOP health care bill, unable to find enough votes approve it and send it on to the Senate for further work. While House leaders said votes were possible on Friday, there was no final agreement to vote on, as more conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus refused to get on board with a deal offered by the White House.
Terry Brewster, a construction worker, visits his primary care physician, Dr. Paul Cohen, MD at Little River Medical Center in Little River, S.C., in June 2015. Brewster, dealing with high blood pressure and arthritis, has marketplace coverage under the Affordable Care Act which covers ten essential health benefits.
With time running short, President Trump and House GOP leaders are desperately scrambling to find enough votes to pass their Obamacare repeal plan. Republicans have promised a Thursday vote on their bill to coincide with the 7th anniversary of Obamacare becoming law.
U.S. President Donald Trump may face his first major legislative hurdle on Thursday: a do-or-die vote in the House of Representatives on a plan that would roll back the signature healthcare law of former President Barack Obama. Trump has been billed by some lawmakers as "the closer" to seal the deal on the replacement healthcare plan in a vote Republican leaders hoped to hold on Thursday, but there were signs late on Wednesday night that the deadline could be pushed back.
The White House is talking with House conservatives about last-minute changes to the embattled GOP health-care bill aimed at wooing enough holdouts to secure House passage. Lawmakers and Trump administration officials are discussing revisions to "essential benefits" requirements in Obamacare, according to members of Congress and a White House official familiar with the discussions.
A network of libertarian and conservative donors established by Charles and David Koch is offering a financial safety net to Republican lawmakers who choose to defy their party's leadership and vote against the GOP bill to replace Obamacare. Two groups, Freedom Partners and Americans for Prosperity, are offering a "seven-figure" fund to support dissenting Republicans in their 2018 re-election races, according to multiple reports Wednesday evening.
You might wonder how the president could get out of bed and head to Capitol Hill after the beating he took there on Monday at the hands of FBI Director James Comey . But roll out he did to make a big push for passage of the American Health Care Act , a bill he's not been all that enthusiastic about but which has become a test of his leadership.