LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Well… This is awkward. According to a new report: Television advertisements thanking Republican representatives for repealing the Affordable Care Act on Friday has the conservative American Action Network PAC slightly red-faced. President Donald Trump and the Republican leadership suffered a major setback in their efforts to repeal…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck The American Health Care Act, which was touted by establishment Republicans as the perfect Obamacare replacement but the more liberty-minded GOP members in the House and Senate argued as being merely “Obamacare lite,” has been killed. This bodes much better for the libertarians in the GOP…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield ABC News is reporting that at 3:00 PM EST, 30 minutes prior to the vote on the American Health Care Act’s replacement of Obamacare, President Donald Trump called Speaker Paul Ryan and instructed him to pull the bill from the House floor. BREAKING: President Trump called Speaker Ryan at…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield The New York Times is reporting that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) rushed to the White House to tell the President that he did not have the votes to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act and to decide whether to pull the bill from consideration. RELATED: GOP Rep:…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Washington, D.C. — Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin promises that the administration is now ready to tackle tax and regulatory reform, even if health care reform falls flat in Congress. President Donald Trump’s message has been that tax reform and his other pro-growth policies are impossible…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Republican Rep. Chris Collins of New York asserted it would be easier to explain what’s in the new health care bill after it’s passed, according to an interview with MSNBC Thursday. Collins echoed former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s claims in 2009 that lawmakers needed to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Cato Institute’s Director of Health Policy, and constant critic of Obamacare, Michael Cannon may have exposed some of the dirty politics coming out of Washington DC regarding the House Republicans debacle that is healthcare replacement. Cannon tweeted “Sources: House leadership threatens to pull bill to preserve #ObamaCare, and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield The House of Representatives delayed its vote on repealing and replacing parts of the Affordable Care Act after Republican leaders failed to rally enough support to pass the bill, per a CNBC report. Per CNBC: The GOP House caucus will meet at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said Wednesday that House leadership needs to push back the Obamacare repeal vote to allow for changes to the legislation. Paul — who met with members of the House Freedom Caucus, which remains unsold on the measure — has been highly…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rachel Stoltzfoos Republican Michigan Rep. Justin Amash continued to insist Monday night the Obamacare replacement bill doesn’t have a chance of passing the House, saying GOP leaders have “seriously miscalculated.” “They haven’t changed the bill’s general framework,” Amash tweeted. “They don’t have the votes to pass it. They have seriously…