‘I’m asking for your vote on Thursday,’ the president said.
President Donald Trump arrived on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning with a stern message for Republicans who’ve been wobbly about dismantling Obamacare: Give me your vote or you may lose your seat in 2018.
Trump warned Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, who has led conservative opposition to the Republican health care plan, that “I’m gonna come after you” if he keeps it up, according to multiple sources.
The sources cautioned that Trump may have been “half joking,” as one put it. Yet the president did single Meadows out in front of his colleagues, asking the North Carolina Republican to stand up as Trump addressed him.
Meadows, who traveled to Trump’s Mar-a-lago home over the weekend to talk about the American Health Care Act and what changes he wanted to see in the measure, responded by complimenting the president on his residence.
Trump countered that “I guess it wasn’t lovely enough” because Meadows is still a “no” on the bill.
Trump’s harsh message was one that Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and the House GOP leadership badly wanted delivered to their rank-and file colleagues. Many of them are wary about or outright opposed to the plan, set for a vote in the House on Thursday.
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President — with a smile — singled out HFC chairman Mark Meadows in meeting.
Meadows source tells me he's still opposing.
— Kevin Cirilli (@kevcirilli) March 21, 2017
It’s not a repeal!!!!!
No it isn’t. It’s just putting lipstick on a pig.
And if I were Mark Meadows, I’d tell Trump where he can stick his threats.
The count is up to 30 in opposition. 21 is all it takes to kill the bill.
And Trump doesn’t have the juice to primary all of them. Ryan is going to have to redo the bill.
I don’t like Trump’s strong-arm tactics. The president and Congress are supposed to work together. We don’t have a monarchy or a dictatorship where a ruler issues edicts and the legislative body rubber stamps them. This is not Trump’s empire. Time for Trump to stop acting like an emperor and start listening to and working with congress.
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