He then thought that he had their votes on healthcare.
The Freedom Caucus then unilaterally changed their requirements without asking or informing Trump and voted against the bill.
That is why one of the founding members left the Freedom Caucus.
They didn't keep their word.
If Republicans cared about keeping their word, they would repeal Obama care... kind of like they promised for 6 years.
Nobody voted AGAINST the bill.
The bill was pulled.
No vote took place.
That is also how I understand the situation.
You’re the second person to say this on this thread (someone later said the same thing, claiming also LS said the same thing on his Twitter feed)
May I ask for the source for this claim please (that the FC got basically what they wanted from negotiations with Trump and the Ryan camp but the FC ended up renigjng on the deal)?
And what I’m really looking for is some reports that says specifically, “the FC were given assurances that the mandate requiring those with preexisting conditions be guaranteed insurances would be gone in phase ONE”.
Because anything less is Obamacare lite. Make no mistake.
Trump's plan was for a full repeal and replace. The Republicans voted for a full repeal numerous times.
Those are the people who haven't kept their word.
The Freedom Caucus was given a couple of weeks to read the RYNOcare bill and to figure out what if very little was actually repealed of the 20,000 pages of Obamacare. That is why they kept on coming up with new stuff. That's why you need to fully repeal it.
Fully repeal Obamacare.
He then thought that he had their votes on healthcare.
The Freedom Caucus then unilaterally changed their requirements without asking or informing Trump and voted against the bill.
That is why one of the founding members left the Freedom Caucus.
They didn't keep their word."
Your information is wrong, and Poe is lying. No goalposts were ever moved. They insisted all along that their policy was complete repeal of all Obamacare Regulations, all of them. They never got that. Trump did peal off a few by making concessions, but their position never changed, nor did they get their conditions met. No goalposts were moved.
The HFC took a vote early on, and 80%+ agreed that they would insist on every Obamacare regulation repealed. They did not get that.
BTW, one of the members--Mo Brooks--filed a bill to completely repeal obamacare as of December 31, 2017. It's called, "Obamacare Repeal Act." Did you call your rep and ask him/her to co-sponsor that bill? And sign the discharge petition?
To all the rest: I am sick of the fake news on the HFC, and the hypocrisy of freepers. Call your rep to get a complete repeal--the bill is there--or stfu.
That's exactly what happened. And when you know this, you understand now that the "Freedom Caucus" wanted Obamacare to stay. Their negotiations were never serious.