How Compromise really works.
Posted on 03/21/2017 3:56:29 PM PDT by Mariner
Some conservatives in Washington were fuming on Tuesday after an Obamacare rollback bill was tweaked by Republican leaders to delete a provision meant to crack down on illegal immigrants getting federal healthcare insurance coverage.
The development posed another problem for Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives and President Donald Trump, who are trying to win congressional approval of the wider bill, the first big legislative test for Trump since taking office.
The provision would have allowed the Treasury Department to access data at the Department of Homeland Security to verify that healthcare tax credits went only to U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, not to illegal immigrants.
In a largely procedural move, it was dropped from the bill after the Senate Parliamentarian determined that the Senate Finance Committee, which handles tax credits under the bill, does not have purview over the Department of Homeland Security.
Republican Representative Lou Barletta issued a statement on Monday evening, after the change was made, saying he could no longer support the bill, citing the obscure provision.
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This is DC, they want the issue not the solution.
now we have the perfect as enemy of the good.
It’s not good.
And clean repeal is far from perfect.
Exactly. I shake my head when I read posts here and on other sites that say the president is being led by the speaker and the rest of the GOP leadership on healthcare. Trump took on and beat the entire GOP establishment to win the presidency. It’s a little hard to accept that all of a sudden he’s acquiescing to them now on one of his trademark issues. He’s gaming Ryan, McCarthy, and the rest of the house leaders. I’m sure he’s also laying a trap for McConnell in the senate too. We should know by now the president always plays a sleight of hand with these clowns in DC.
Wrong.
51 votes = Repeal.
Rules ard not laws, they are a fake game.
Sadly, under Ryan the amnesty/cheap labor Chamber of Commerce is writing a large part of the bill.
Trump needs to understand that a lot of the swamp creatures are right there in the Republican Party.
I get your point, but....couldn’t Trump have just sat back, and let RynoCare fail, rather than mustering support on the Hill? Why climb that mountain if you’re playing rope-a-dope?
I think I read that he’s going back to the Hill, to drum support?
And, like Laura Ingraham said on Hannity, tonight....why tell those who oppose, like Mark Meadows/Freedom Caucus members, saying they won’t get his support/re-elected if they don’t support RynoCare? Laura said it’s common for a Prez to do these things, but usually not this early in a Presidency.
I get what you’re saying Jane and I agree with you it would have made more sense to be low key about it, but I think we should know by now after nearly two years of Trump the candidate and now the president that his every move is calculated for effect. That’s what his political opponents, the MSM, and frankly many who support him don’t understand about the man. I think everyone is making the mistake of judging the president’s actions through the normal prism of what we assume a politician should be, and that can’t be done because he’s not one of them and he never will be. This is a presidency that will blaze its own path and not be anything like the 44 administrations that came before.
With or without the immigrant provision it is a box of chains, the same chains that the good Congressmen say they are “repealing.” The job cannot be done Constitutionally. No Congress will cooperate without coercion. Voters have almost no influence because congressmen know that if they lose their next elections because they did what their actual employers desired, they will transition to lobbyist or consultant at lifetime pay that is superior to their Congressional salaries and if they buck the system and hold to principle, they will be opposed by a limitless well of campaign money for the campaign of someone better suited to the globalist task.
Dems would have to have some sort of epiphaneous experience before they would “come crawling.”
Bannon can’t talk Gorelick into committing hari kari? It’s the only honorable thing she could do.
In all sincerity, I couldn’t live with myself if I’d made as stupid and destructive a decision as Gorelick did.
Hopefully, Bannon has a game plan for driving that horrid creature out of the WH post haste.
Not joking. I’d never joke about something as disgusting as Gorelick.
I think we need to make a lot of noise about her being in the WH until she’s no longer in the WH.
I have never reacted well to treason. I hope our “leaders” will rethink this before they have to be reminded where all governments derive their just powers from.
She is a Tier 1 member of the Deep State.
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