04 August, 2017
A number of other Republicans have also indicated they're unwilling to follow Trump's lead and deliberately upend the insurance market if they can't pass their own own health care bill.
Republican senators are bucking President Donald Trump's calls to revive the health care debate.
Schumer said by blocking the money, the president would "impose a Trump premium tax of 20 percent higher premiums on the American people next year".
But six months into his presidency, his disconnect with many in his party is clear, after the departure of two party stalwarts from the White House and the public shaming of his own attorney general.
Last week's announcement on tax reform by Team 6 was initially billed as a multi-page framework.
"If you turn those independents, you'll get enough Republicans, because you're on message", he said. I don't intend to be fooled twice, and I hope I'm not alone. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.
Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, who faces a possible tough re-election next year, said Trump remains popular among voters in her state, which he carried by 36 points in November. The vote was 92-5 with five Democrats voting no. The uncertainty shows that last week's wreck of the Republican drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act hasn't blunted the issue's sharp-edged politics.
Bipartisanship is suddenly the talk of Capitol Hill, where Republicans and Democrats are now expressing a tentative desire to join hands after a brutal debate over Obamacare repeal.
The anti-merger policy is in line with what Sanders supports and the crackdown on prescription drug prices is not easy for Democrats from Mid-Atlantic states with heavy pharmaceutical industry presence.
A letter signed by 45 Senate Democrats, including Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, warned that any tax reform plan should not burden the middle class, not include a tax cut for the top 1 percent of the wealthiest Americans and not include cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security.
Schumer said Thursday that McConnell's rejection of the Democratic overture suggests that Republicans are pursuing tax cuts for the rich, noting that McConnell has agreed with Democrats that tax reform should be revenue neutral.
"We needed to find more Democrats and the math got hard", John Anzalone, pollster for the Democratic candidate, Jon Ossoff, told consultants on an after-action call arranged by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
"We've written important bills together", Wyden said.
The president has been on this topic before, insisting that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republicans get rid of the filibuster for legislation, just as they did for Supreme Court nominations. "This is everybody's opportunity to say, 'Let's be grown-ups.' Otherwise, it will be like health care and they won't get it done".
"It's time to move onto something else, come back to health care when we've had more time to get beyond the moment we're in", said Sen.
That proposal, along with Sanders' push for a national health-care system for all, were left out of the early agenda items. He said, "The votes are simply not there".
McCain said Wednesday that he campaigned for "repeal and replace" of the health law and the Senate plan was repeal and "not replace". Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who had a successful working relationship with the late Sen.
Trump heaped praise on the RNC's leadership team during the June fundraiser, calling them stars and winners.
The proposal would leave intact taxes imposed under Obamacare, which could draw the ire of conservatives who complained that previous Senate proposals failed to fully repeal the ACA. This might be the reason the president began tweeting in recent days about changing the Senate rules requiring such supermajorities.
"At the same time", Heller said, "...protecting Nevada's most vulnerable has been a priority of mine".
The event at the Trump International Hotel, just down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, raised $10 million to be divided between Trump and the party, the kind of bounty usually reserved for the final months before an election.
Photographs of that meeting with Trump are featured prominently in the Rosen campaign ad.
