It was the latest signs of high-stakes maneuvering over a key campaign promise, and the president signaled a willingness to deal.
"We've a very good plan, " Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
As Republicans scrambled Sunday to wrangle enough votes to pass health care reform legislation, U.S. president Donald Trump - in an unusual bid to reach out to his political opponents - urged Democrats to support bill.
The CBO is not expected to "score" the Senate version of the health care bill until next week, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to have a vote on the measure by the end of the week. Analysts noted that if all Democrats vote against the bill, only two GOP votes would be required to stop it from passing.
"It may be a squeaker, but I have a lot of confidence in the ability and the maneuverability of McConnell", Lott said. "I want to see a bill with heart", he added.
"They can't fight the fight any more", Cronin said. "The level of hostility". "I call her Pocahontas and that's an insult to Pocahontas".
On taxes, a working group of four top lawmakers is meeting weekly in hopes of coming up with a unified GOP tax plan for a vote this fall. "That would be very bad for the Republican Party - and please let Cryin' Chuck stay!" he wrote. Changes can still be made to the legislation. "And I'm not against it just because I want to be against it".
"I would like to delay", said Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
"The health care bill would be so great if the Democrats and Republicans could get together, wrap their arms around it so that everybody is happy with it", Trump said. "That's the kind of thing we're trying to fix". It would gut the Medicaid program by $880 billion over 10 years and pass most of the savings on to wealthy taxpayers by abolishing taxes created by the Affordable Care Act.
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It also led indirectly to the reopening of the examination of his past. "This came from Cosby's publicity team". But Benson argues that she is doing no such thing-rather, she is correcting a story perpetuated by the media.
Collins, who also opposes proposed cuts to Planned Parenthood, said she would await an analysis Monday from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office before taking a final position on the bill.
She also pushed back on the White House's line that the bill would not result in Medicaid cuts.
Underscoring the sensitivity of the bill, Sen. It would permit state governments to make changes to Obamacare insurance plans that could then be adopted by private plans. Reducing taxes, Republicans argue, will boost the economy, and shrinking spending on programs such as Medicaid will slow the growth of the federal debt.
One of the Republican senators who's opposing his party's health care bill as written says the Senate shouldn't vote on the plan this week.
The Senate plan raises the contribution limits $100 more than the House bill. But I think they're going to get there, " Trump told "Fox and Friends".
In nearly the exact words used yesterday by Collins, Heller said he could not support any bill that took away health insurance from "tens of millions of people". Famous last words, right?
After seven years of attacking Obamacare as everything from a socialist conspiracy to a plot to pull the plug on grandma and after three years of complaining about Obamacare's high premiums and deductibles, the Republicans' long-promised replacement is effectively just Obamacare with much higher costs for consumers. Still, Schumer acknowledged it was too close to call as to whether Republicans could muster enough support on their own to pass the bill.
He told ABC's This Week that the Republicans have "at best, a 50-50 chance".
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