A little more than a week after President Donald Trump launched a messaging blitz to rebrand the GOP as 'the party of great healthcare,' Trump on Monday night appeared ready to shelve the issue.
A little more than a week after President Donald Trump and the Republican Party launched a messaging blitz aimed at rebranding the GOP in 2020 as"the party of great healthcare," Trump on Monday night appeared ready to shelve the issue, following a week of legal setbacks and internal party strife over the best way to proceed.
It also relieved pressure that had been mounting in both the White House and the Republican controlled Senate in recent days to produce a replacement bill within months, one that could somehow advance through a Democratically controlled House. According to Attorney General William Barr, Mueller's two year probe uncovered no evidence that Trump's campaign coordinated with Russia in 2016, and did not amass enough evidence to merit pursuing obstruction of justice charges against the president.
With little enthusiasm for aggressively tackling health care reform from the president, his core supporters, or congressional Republicans, it's easy to see how Trump's announcement extending the symbolic deadline for a GOP replacement plan to 2021 works to both the president's and his party's advantage.
On Monday morning, shades of this 2016 campaign tactic were already visible in at least one of Trump's tweets:"The cost of ObamaCare is far too high for our great citizens," Trump wrote."Good things are going to happen!"
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