["Trump is now the worst possible thing he can be, in his own eyes: A loser" (Source: Robert Reich's FB page, at <https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/?fref=ts>.)]
I/IV. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/trump-asks-republicans-withdraw-healthcare-bill-170324194840115.html 1 HOUR AGO Republicans withdraw healthcare bill in blow to Trump Short of support from fellow Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan pulls legislation meant to replace Obamacare. The failure to get enough votes for the Republican bill was seen as a major setback for President Trump [Carlos Barria/Reuters] Republicans in the US House of Representatives, short of support from their own party, have withdrawn a healthcare bill drafted to repeal and replace "Obamacare". House Speaker Paul Ryan said he recommended that it be withdrawn because he did not have the votes to pass it, and President Donald Trump agreed. Just a day earlier, Trump had demanded a House vote and said if the measure lost, he would move on to other issues. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that "we were very close" and tried to blame Democrats for the failure to pass the legislation - even though his Republican Party controls both the House and the Senate. "We were just probably anywhere from 10 to 15 votes short," Trump said. "With no Democrat support we couldn't quite get there." He also said he was surprised and disappointed by the opposition from the House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative Republicans who led the resistance against the legislation. Ryan told reporters that Obamacare will now stay in place for the foreseeable future. Pulling the bill he had promoted was "a setback, no two ways about it," he said, calling it a "disappointing day". Democrats, on the other hand, called it a "victory" for the American people. Snipped II/IV. http://www.vox.com/obamacare/2017/3/24/15055232/donald-trump-ahca-statement 6 ways President Trump tried to spin his total defeat on health care Updated by Libby Nelson@libbyanelson Mar 24, 2017, 6:12pm EDT President Donald Trump, who loves to win, just suffered the biggest defeat of his still-nascent presidency. The American Health Care Act, the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, was so unpopular that House Speaker Paul Ryan canceled a vote on the bill at the last minute Friday. You might be wondering how Trump would react to a loss that is nearly impossible to spin as a victory. The answer is that, of course, he tried anyway. Snipped III/IV. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/24/republican-healthcare-plan-bill-vote-pulled-obamacare-trump Trump blames Democrats for stunning failure to repeal Obamacare Weeks of negotiations over American Health Care Act fail to build a GOP consensus, forcing president to pull legislation from House vote [Video: Donald Trump lambasts Democrats as Obamacare replacement bill pulled] Ben Jacobs and David Smith in Washington Saturday 25 March 2017 01.36 GMT First published on Friday 24 March 2017 19.41 GMT Donald Trump suffered a major legislative reversal on Friday as Republicans were forced to pull their repeal of the Affordable Care Act from the House floor. After weeks of contentious negotiations over the American Health Care Act (AHCA), Republicans had to admit defeat as they could not gain sufficient support from their own side for the plan to overhaul US health insurance. Speaking afterward in the Oval Office, Trump blamed Democrats for the failure of a bill to repeal the signature achievement of Barack Obama. “If [Democrats] got together with us, and got us a real healthcare bill, I’d be totally OK with that. The losers are Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, because they own Obamacare. They 100% own it,” he said. Snipped IV. http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/42660-bannon-tells-trump-keep-a-shit-list-of-republicans-who-opposed-you Bannon Tells Trump: 'Keep a Shit List' of Republicans Who Opposed You By Asawin Suebsaeng, The Daily Beast 24 March 17 Snipped -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
