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But the devil is in the details, and to get D buy-in on health care, he will have to **** off the Freedom Caucus. There's just no two ways about that. I suspect that he's been talking back-channel to Ds on this already, I can't imagine he would be dumb enough to take this political risk in public w/out a pretty clear idea of what Ds would go for. (Oh wait - actually I can imagine he'd be that dumb...)
While it's true that genuinely reaching out to Ds on health care would establish a better working relationship with Ds in general, it is not necessarily true that just because he can get enough D votes on health care, he could keep these votes when it comes to tax reform. There again, doing things that Ds could support would **** off a WHOLE LOT of people.
President Trump and a top adviser on Wednesday pushed back plans to overhaul the tax code, saying they wanted to prioritize first a renewed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
The comments from Trump and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney mark a sharp reversal from the administration’s approach just a few weeks ago. After they were dealt a stinging defeat when conservative Republicans refused to vote for a GOP health-care plan, Trump angrily said he was pivoting to tax reform and has been peppering his top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, for details of their tax timeline ever since.
IMO, Trump shifted his focus to tax reform because he thought that it was a slam dunk. But, like healthcare reform, the Republicans aren't all on the same page. So it's back to trying to hammer out a revised TrumpCare package - this time without Steve Bannon hammering on the table, trying to scare the Freedom Caucus.
At least time Trump didn't tell the press that he didn't realize how complicated tax reform was.
I think if he was operating on his own, something would be done by now.
Congress seems to be throwing him for a loop...
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tRUMP Reverses Himself (Again)...Wants HealthCare BEFORE Tax Reform
