Posted on 03/26/2017 1:11:20 PM PDT by Mariner
Fresh off a defeat on U.S. healthcare legislation, the White House warned rebellious conservative lawmakers that they should get behind President Donald Trump's agenda or he may bypass them on future legislative fights, including tax reform.
The threat by White House chief of staff Reince Priebus to build a broad coalition on tax reform that could include moderate Democrats came as the Republican head of the tax-writing committee in the House of Representatives said he hoped to move a tax bill through his panel this spring.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said his committee had been working on tax reform in parallel with the failed healthcare reform push.
"We've never stopped working," Brady told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo." "We will continue to make improvements."
Brady said the committee plans to move on the bill in the spring. He said he wanted the House blueprint to be the basis for Trump's tax reform plan rather than have competing versions from Treasury and the White House.
Both Trump and Priebus have scolded hardline conservatives who rejected legislation backed by the White House to overhaul Obamacare.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Priebus held out the possibility of working with moderate Democrats as well as Republicans to pass other aspects of Trump's agenda, such as his proposed budget, the revamp of the tax code and a renewed effort at healthcare reform.
"If we can come up with a bill that accomplishes the goals of the president with Republicans alone, we'll take it and we'll move forward with it," Priebus said.
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“You don’t know that.”
Even political neophytes and 4th graders know that.
But the votes from moderate Democrats would be 4 at the most- that’s all there are!
The “Consevatives” fell on thier collective swords. Instead of making deals and offering realistic solutions, they withheld thier vote. They went for all or nothing and they lost. Welcome to Obamacare and eventually single payer.
Thanks House Freedom Caucus.
The only reason to align with Democrats on tax reform is if you want to accomplish nothing of any substance. I can’t imagine any president in 2017 would want to come down on the losing side of the 1993 and 2009 “tax reform” initiatives.
IMO, it has always been part of Trump`s plan to try and move the Democratic party more to the center. If he can achieve that he`ll have the leverage he needs to be able to deal with his own party more effectively.
The Obama wiretapping scandal, and perhaps other scandals as well, have the potential to do some serious damage to the Democrat party (as well, perhaps, to a number of RINOs). When that happens, there will be a lot of Dems looking to jump off a sinking ship and realign their ideology to align themselves more to Trump`s prosperity/populism message (a message, I might add, that aligns more closely with many of their own constituents).
You have lost your mind. Trump is not going to sign single payer. Get a grip!
There will be a tremendous clamor to have an obamacare “fix” before the midterms. I’ll buy you a clue: it will happen and the HFC won’t have any influence on that bill.
Ridiculous article. The Dems will do all tthey can to hurt the R’s they’ll be no aligning with Trump.
Ideology doesn’t just matter, it’s everything. It’s why Trump is looking to cut deals with democrats to pass watered down crap.
POTUS has got to get legislation passed or his entire agenda will grind to a halt. Wall, trade, everything. Momentum is all cumulative and the SS Trump has just taken a big hole below the waterline thanks to virtue signalling “conservatives”.
“Recall when our President said one of his “faults” was he has a very long memory and sometimes cannot forgive (or words to that affect)?
The FC, in my opinion, crossed him and he will not forget it.
I would not want to be in their shoes.”
What is this, Sopranos?
Trumpcare was averted. THANK GOD! Now the President should work on the complete REPEAL and getting the Tax Reform implemented WITH the help of FC and the conservatives/like-minded libertarians, not trying to alienate the conservatives by pulling movie, well, moves.
No, I don’t advocate that.
I’m close to the anarchy side of (l)ibertarian.
I would burn the entirety of DC to the ground.
But I also recognize political reality.
The Tuesday Group -- comprised of "moderate" Republicans (I think most of them are outright leftists) -- had almost as many outright "No" votes as the Freedom Caucus.
Is Donald Trump going to post a Twitter message about them, too?
Everyone seems to have forgot how and why Trump was elected.
Most theories are BS and Ryan proved that.
Everyone who has said Trump would never be elected unless he.......
Fill in your own theory, were proven to be wrong.
Trump will either do what he ran on or he will be president for the same length of time as Mr. Read My Lips, No New Taxes.
And don't think some FC members are not gloating now.
That same bill would lose by over 400 votes in the House today.
Even political neophytes and 4th graders know that.
Sure, anything you say smart guy. And aren't you the guy who also believes that Trump will sign off on single payer?
LOL. Yes, that's you.
Can those be named?
Many said he lost 20+ on BOTH sides of the ideological spectrum in the caucus.
No POTUS can herd 40 cats. Had Trump had the right wing of his base solid he could have picked off enough of progressive GOPers to get it done. Instead we are stuck with full blown kenyancare until the “fix” presumably next year before the midterms. What divisive mess that we will be. The Dems say thank you freedom caucus. What a gift.
Digressing, they could have did what Krauthammer suggested by loading up a healthcare bill that was about pure market forces that determined the prices. Would this bill primarily of market forces gotten past the House? And if it did get past the “moderate” Repubs (highly problematic), I highly doubt it would survived the Senate. Would Mitch let it have an up and down vote without changes? Again doubtful.
But as Krauthammer suggested, the Dems would have gotten the blame for its defeat or most of it.
So it was a thread the needle situation to maybe get around 90% of what’s a ‘good bill’, but as we know, Ryan hid the the bill without much if any input to get a consensus.
Ultimately in the end, the linch-pin is to return to market forces to keep prices competitive. The best way is to undo the in-state monopoly that the healthcare insurance industry now enjoys because there exists an exemption to federal anti-trust laws as long as individual states regulate their in-state insurance companies. 1945 McCarran-Feguson Act. The real question is will Congress allow to dissolve this law in the near future?
I also don’t buy the nonsense that if ObamaCare completely collapses that single-payer is going to take its place. Not when about 240 Republicans are controlling Congress even with RINOs in the party.
As someone pointed up thread, we have to control immigration, likely for several years to move the country to the right, to get a more conservative agenda passed, which of course also includes healthcare.
Add that to the list of things Mariner knows.
There are "moderate Democrats".
LOL.
Dodging the debates? The debates were rigged, they were a colossal fraud. The lying media who put on the debates then moderated them, were de facto Trump opponents. Corrupt from the top down.
Every debate for Trump was like walking into court on bogus charges and seeing he prosecutors wife on the bench.
Gezzz, some people have really bad memories on what the hell has transpired.
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