Trump Calls Out Freedom Caucus In Tweet Ahead Of Uncertain Repeal Vote

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published MARCH 24, 2017, 8:46 AM EDT

As Republicans geared up for a vote on their bill to repeal and replace Obamacare on Friday morning, despite uncertainty that leaders had gained enough support to pass the bill, President Donald Trump tried to push the conservative Freedom Caucus to back the legislation.

Trump used his favorite communication tool, Twitter, to single out the Freedom Caucus for its members' opposition to the House bill. The President noted that the bill would defund Planned Parenthood and that the caucus would be forgoing an attempt to block funding for the organization, perhaps in the hopes that he could shame the caucus into backing the bill.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

It's not clear that a tweet from Trump would push more members of the caucus to back the bill. They pushed for two major changes to the bill, and only one of those changes, a repeal of Obamacare's Essential Health Benefits requirement, made it into an amendment.

Despite the uncertainty that there are enough votes in the House to push the bill over the finish line, Trump issued an ultimatum on Thursday night: vote for the bill on Friday or Obamacare remains.

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[underpants]

1. Cunning negotiating. Support it then say it doesn't matter

then throw down an ultimatum

[George II]

2. How to win friends and influence people, huh? I guess mr. trump never was a fan of Dale Carnegie.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. They want to keep Obamacare

It gives them something to blame.

[busterbrown]

6. It gives Dems, an opportunity to fix it...

Of Course Republicans don’t want it to be fixed..

Obama has stated “ make it better and i’ll support it"

[Dorn]

4. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer -- knife your frenemies in the gut

You know I tend to agree with DT a little, the "Freedom Caucus", aka Freedom from Freedom Caucus, wants people to be free to die, is pro-life after birth and wants to cut funding from P.P. so that more woman get pregnant and die from back alley abortions. That is ironic.

[Sunlei]

5. Mr Trump , The leader Republicans "Freedom Caucus" will always ignore you.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

7. Does anybody think he wrote those?

The tweets express complete thoughts. Does he even know the definition of irony much less use it properly in a sentence? I would guess that Ivanka wrote them.

[catsudon]

8. i like this tweet

he's throwing the ultra conservative group under the bus.

people on the far right who never supported the bill (because it didn't go far enough), are angry. i wouldn't go as far as calling them our ally, but i would say that i enjoy my popcorn watching two groups on the right fighting each other.