Paul Ryan Tells Conservatives DACA Will Be Part Of Spending Deal
The Speaker also said he didn’t think Obamacare subsidies would be part of the deal, but it could still be a huge win for Democrats and undocumented immigrants.
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U.S. lawmakers will not tackle healthcare this year, Ryan says: Reuters interview
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers will not take up a bipartisan plan to stabilize Obamacare insurance markets or try again to repeal and replace the law this year, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday, signaling his party was shelving the matter until the 2018 U.S. congressional election year.
President Donald Trump promised as a candidate last year to dismantle Obamacare. While the House passed such a bill last May, the Senate tried but failed to do so in July and September thanks to deep intra-party divisions and fears that millions of Americans would lose their healthcare coverage.
“I think that is something we should do next year,” Ryan said in an interview with Reuters when asked about prospects of the House passing a bipartisan bill that would reinstate federal subsidies to private insurers to help lower-income people buy medical coverage through the Affordable Care Act, dubbed Obamacare.
Asked whether the seven-year Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare was now dead, Ryan responded, “No.” But he added, “I can’t imagine we can do that this year.”
www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-ryan/u-s-lawmakers-will-not-tackle-healthcare-this-year-ryan-says-reuters-interview-idUSKBN1CU1XW
Secrecy, Division, Complaints: GOP Tax Rollout Echoes Obamacare Repeal
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A chorus of ‘we don’t know’ as lawmakers ponder plan’s details
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Framework set some goals, but didn’t answer toughest questions
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Already, many lawmakers are making similar complaints about the tax effort — saying they need more details before they can commit to the audacious timeline House Speaker Paul Ryan has vowed to meet: He wants a bill through the House by Thanksgiving. Rank-and-file members fear they’ll have two choices: Swallow whatever bill their leaders devise or blow their self-imposed deadline of sending a bill to President Donald Trump before year’s end.
“We don’t know the brackets,” Representative Chris Collins of New York, a Trump ally, told reporters after a Republican conference meeting Tuesday. “We don’t know where we are on estate taxes. We don’t know where we are on” the state and local tax deduction — a contentious issue for members like Collins from high-tax states.
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www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-25/secrecy-division-complaints-gop-tax-rollout-echoes-obamacare
Freedom Caucus needs to remove Paul Ryno from leadership immediately. He is a traitor to the American people.
If it walks like a democrat and talks like a democrat it probably is a democrat. Ryan
should follow Sen. Flake’s lead and resign immediately or
officially declare himself a turncoat democrat. If he can’t keep
up, he should get out of the way.
GOP will suffer massive losses at election for this … they all knew. That’s why the budget went to the Senate first. Now they’re going to use the GOP majority in Congress against Americans First.