White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that he was confident that the American Health Care Act would pass the House of Representatives.
The bill, currently in the House Rules Committee, could see a full floor vote Thursday.
“No,” there’s no plan B, Spicer told a reporter who asked about his confidence that the bill would win support in the House during a press briefing Wednesday.
“There’s ‘Plan A’ and ‘Plan A,’” he said. “We’re going to get this done.”
Spicer said Trump “absolutely” embraces the role of “closer,” when it comes to health care.
Despite Trump’s lobbying of Congress on Tuesday, the bill faces considerable hurdles from conservatives in the House.
Politico reported Wednesday that members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus still thought they could prevent the bill’s passage.
On Wednesday, House Rules Committee Chair Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) said of the bill: “It could be this bill runs into problems as we get on the floor.”
That’s true of lots of us and health insurance.
There’s barely a plan A, how would there be a plan B? Someone needs to stand up and just shut this whole thing down.
Closer? I’ll be shocked if Trump gets a set of steak knives at the end of this…
Plan B is to blame Paul Ryan for writing the shitty plan that Trump couldn’t get passed.
Apparently, Trump’s efforts yesterday not only didn’t help…10 people actually moved into the “NO” column after he spoke with them.
Paul, Cruz and Lee had a meeting with the Freedom Caucus this afternoon. Looks like the whip count is Ryan is about 35-37 votes down. He can only lose 22. This is made considerably worse because Ryan is NOT a whip up the votes guy…he lacks the skills, personality, relationships and experience, and the FC actually has people that do that.
Stick a fork in this.