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‘Hello, Bob’: President Trump called my cellphone to say that the health-care bill was dead
Washington Post ^ | 03/24/2017 | Bob Costa

Posted on 03/24/2017 5:29:43 PM PDT by MaxistheBest

President Trump called me on my cellphone Friday afternoon at 3:31 p.m. At first I thought it was a reader with a complaint since it was a blocked number.

Instead, it was the president calling from the Oval Office. His voice was even, his tone muted. He did not bury the lead.

“Hello, Bob,” Trump began. “So, we just pulled it.”

Trump was speaking, of course, of the Republican plan to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, a plan that had been languishing for days amid unrest throughout the party as the president and his allies courted members and pushed for a vote.

Before I could ask a question, Trump plunged into his explanation of the politics of deciding to call off a vote on a bill he had been touting.

The Democrats, he said, were to blame.

“We couldn’t get one Democratic vote, and we were a little bit shy, very little, but it was still a little bit shy, so we pulled it,” Trump said.

Trump said he would not put the bill on the floor in the coming weeks. He is willing to wait and watch the current law continue and, in his view, encounter problems. And he believes that Democrats will eventually want to work with him on some kind of legislative fix to Obamacare, although he did not say when that would be. ---------------------------------------

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ahca; obamacare; trump
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To: MaxistheBest

You can also bet he doesn’t get re-elected without conservatives supporting him. You can book that too.


21 posted on 03/24/2017 6:09:57 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: Pinkbell

They should have thought of that before they threw their temper tantrum !


22 posted on 03/24/2017 6:11:27 PM PDT by hoosiermama (RWhen you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: KyCats

“You can also bet he doesn’t get re-elected without conservatives supporting him.”

So I guess he’s only as good as the last thing he did for you,right?...everything he has done so far has been right in your sweetspot.

And by the way...if you are talking about conservatives, he will do just fine with them in 4 years... but he won’t need the Freedom Caucus. They just made sure of that.


23 posted on 03/24/2017 6:16:33 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: MaxistheBest

Bilgewater.


24 posted on 03/24/2017 6:18:56 PM PDT by piasa
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To: KyCats

“You can book that too”

He won Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin with Reagan Democrats NOT the Freedom Caucus.


25 posted on 03/24/2017 6:18:58 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: MaxistheBest

The Freedom Caucus is the leading edge of the phenomenon that put Trump into office.

I don’t know what your intentions are but if you think you’re going to generate anti-Freedom Caucus sentiment here, you’ve got a screw loose.


26 posted on 03/24/2017 6:23:52 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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To: thoughtomator

“I don’t know what your intentions are”

Cool your jets...I have no intentions at all...couldn’t be bothered.


27 posted on 03/24/2017 6:29:31 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: MaxistheBest
I think the message was don't blame the GOP for what is now the healthcare system
Blame the democrats
They are busy spiking the football
While the football is deflating
A lot more Americans are going to have to get burned by obamacare before anything happens
Meanwhile it is obamacare and the democrats still,own it and they have to answer for it
I think trump sees a day ahead when the democrats will be secretly begging him for help
28 posted on 03/24/2017 6:35:34 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: MaxistheBest

Freedom Caucus voters brought Trump to the party, and voted for him, in droves. Crossover Dems helped him get over the finish line.


29 posted on 03/24/2017 6:47:17 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: MaxistheBest

Trump is essentially correct.


30 posted on 03/24/2017 6:48:18 PM PDT by Bogey78O (So far so good.)
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To: silverleaf

“They are busy spiking the football”

If they were smart, they would have hoped for a Trump fix to healthcare but, like you say, more Americans soon will be screaming about the costs and until someone changes the plan...

it will still be called ObamaCare!!


31 posted on 03/24/2017 6:48:28 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: Pinkbell

Yep. Many of us were talking about this very thing before the vote
was cancelled.

Trump will now be forced to work with Democrats on fixing Obamacare.
Which, of course, will include funding.


32 posted on 03/24/2017 6:51:19 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: Jane Long

“Freedom Caucus voters brought Trump to the party”

Didn’t the Freedom Caucus support Ted Cruz in the primaries?


33 posted on 03/24/2017 6:52:25 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: MaxistheBest

Trump is playing congress like a fiddle.


34 posted on 03/24/2017 6:56:23 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: MaxistheBest

Not sure about the primaries...I was talking about the election party.

I think members were divided in the primary? Again, not sure.


35 posted on 03/24/2017 7:00:33 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

“I was talking about the election party.”

I’m sure they helped a lot in North Carolina.


36 posted on 03/24/2017 7:06:57 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: MaxistheBest

Nice summary. What does Conservative Treehouse say?


37 posted on 03/24/2017 7:10:00 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

They’re having a cry fest over there.


38 posted on 03/24/2017 7:17:07 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: thecodont

“What does Conservative Treehouse say?”

This is part of it:

“Moving forward, any tax legislation will now have to keep the $1 to $2 trillion ObamaCare spending in place; ultimately meaning far less room for comprehensive tax reform. Again, the intransigent CONservative caucus just dealt a blow to tax cuts – this is “disappointing” to the Trump economic agenda and will ultimately mean lesser job growth.”


39 posted on 03/24/2017 7:19:43 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: MaxistheBest

“M”oving forward, any tax legislation will now have to keep the $1 to $2 trillion ObamaCare spending in place; ultimately meaning far less room for comprehensive tax reform. Again, the intransigent CONservative caucus just dealt a blow to tax cuts – this is “disappointing” to the Trump economic agenda and will ultimately mean lesser job growth.””

Bingo.


40 posted on 03/24/2017 7:33:21 PM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP 45. How sweet it is. )
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