White House To Spin Failure Of Health Care Bill As A Success

[Miles Archer]

White House To Spin Failure Of Health Care Bill As A Success
With the deal in doubt, Trump is taking his ball and going home.
By Jason Linkins

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-ahca-negotiating_us_58d544ade4b02a2eaab35816?

With the passage of the American Health Care Act in grave doubt after the House of Representatives blew past their hoped-for Thursday night deadline, President Donald Trump has abruptly decided he is “done negotiating over repealing and replacing Obamacare” and is demanding a Friday vote on the bill even though it may not garner enough votes to pass.

According to Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Trump is “prepared to leave Obamacare in place.”

It’s a sudden and shocking move for a president who billed himself as a dealmaker par excellence. Repealing and replacing Obamacare was one of Trump’s “on day one” promises, and something he’s long sold as a vital first step on the way to other promises. This was so important to Trump that at one point he promised to call for a “special session” of Congress, just for the purpose of getting it done as rapidly as possible.

Now, the Trump White House has evidently decided to spin the possible failure of the AHCA as a success:

Link to tweet

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Imagine if they reversed the Rubio and Roberts changes that would make it even better.

Or imagine we do what the rest of the world already does

[Orsino]

2. "White House to spin failure of [insert Trump agenda item] as success. n/t