Speaker Paul Ryan doesn’t have the votes to pass the healthcare plan and it will not be voted on. Ryan will make the announcement at 4:00. At 3:00 Trump agreed to pulling the bill. There will be no vote and this bill will have to be re-written. It’s a big failure for Trump.
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How low will Trump’s numbers go next week? According to pissed off supporters, the idea was supposed to be cleaning out the swamp not joining the critters in the muck.
Step back a minute, look at the entire process.
The issue was discussed and debated, The Republicans collectively decided that they can’t do things the old Boehner/Cantor/Ryan way anymore.
Trump can say “Hey, we tried things your way and it didn’t work.”
Question: If the House and Senate pass the same repeal bill they all voted for last time, do you think President Trump would sign that one where Obama would not?
Once they couldn’t keep Barbara on the Reservation, they knew they had no choice but to pull the bill.
Great, no bill.
Hopefully, this is the beginning of the end for Ryan.
There is no excuse for this. The republican leadership had 7 years to contrive a replacement that worked – and to have scrambled like a bunch of idiots and then fail is unsatisfactory. At least Trump had the good sense to say no deal is better than a bad one.
but he did not have the good sense to get a working bill. instead, he punted to Ryan – total lack of leadership and a total presidential fail
Trump has this habit of trusting people. You apparently don’t understand but that is typical of the left where trust is only good for advantage.
Your posts makes it seem like Trump has a plan and is a keen strategist. Reality says he is an idiot who has yes men do all his work
Yeah, trusting number 3 never a good idea.
They’ve been busy, and they didn’t expect Trump to win and that they’d actually have to do something.