On Senate Health Bill, Trump Falters in the Closer’s Role

WASHINGTON — President Trump began his all-hands meeting with Republican senators at the White House on Tuesday by saying they were “very close” to passing a health care bill, just as efforts to fast-track a vote this week collapsed.
If Republicans do manage to broker a deal — as Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, cheap mlb hats, pledged to do during a lively East Room back-and-forth with the president — it is not likely to be because of Mr. Trump’s involvement. Until Tuesday afternoon, the president was largely on the sidelines as the fate of one of his most important campaign pledges played out.

Mr. McConnell, who kept the president at a polite arm’s length while he oversaw negotiations over the bill, asked Mr. Trump to arrange the meeting with all 52 Republican senators during a morning phone call, in part to show senators the White House was in fact fully engaged, according to two people with knowledge of the call.

When asked by reporters clustered on the blacktop outside the West Wing if Mr. Trump had command of the details of the negotiations, Mr. McConnell ignored the question and smiled blandly.


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Mr. Trump and his staff played a critical role in persuading House Republicans to pass health care legislation in May, with the president personally calling dozens of wavering House members. But the Trump team’s heavy-handed tactics have been ineffective in the Senate, and White House officials determined that deploying Vice President Mike Pence, a former congressman with deep ties to many in the Senate, was a better bet than unleashing Mr. Trump on the half-dozen Republicans who will determine the fate of the Senate bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Mr. Trump, who is fond of telling friends he is a “closer,” became more involved over the past few days, reaching out to a few reluctant conservatives like Senators Mike Lee of Utah, Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, cheap nfl jerseys, who emerged from an Oval Office meeting on Monday saying he was more optimistic about getting to a yes.

“The White House has been very involved in these discussions,” Mr. McConnell said in announcing that a vote on the bill was postponed until after the Fourth of July recess. “They’re very anxious to help.”

Yet over the past few weeks, the Senate Republican leadership has made it known that it would much rather negotiate with Mr. Pence than a president whose candidacy many did not even take seriously during the 2016 primaries. And some of the White House’s efforts have clearly been counterproductive.

Over the weekend, Mr. McConnell made clear his unhappiness to the White House after a “super PAC” aligned with Mr. Trump started an ad campaign against Senator Dean Heller, Republican of Nevada, after he said last week that he opposed the health care bill.

The majority leader — already rankled by Mr. Trump’s tweets goading him to change Senate rules to scuttle Democratic filibusters — called the White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, to complain that the attacks were “beyond stupid,” according to two Republicans with knowledge of the tense exchange.

Mr. McConnell, who has been toiling for weeks, mostly in private, to put together a measure that would satisfy hard-liners and moderates, told Mr. Priebus in his call that the assault by the group, America First, not only jeopardized the bill’s prospects but also imperiled Mr. Heller’s already difficult path to re-election.

Mr. McConnell and “several other” Republican senators expressed their irritation about the anti-Heller campaign during the White House meeting, according to two people, one of them a senator, who were present.

The move against Mr. Heller had the blessing of the White House, according to an official with America First, because Mr. Trump’s allies were furious that the senator would side with Nevada’s governor, Brian Sandoval, a Republican who accepted the Medicaid expansion under the health law and opposes the Republican overhaul, in criticizing the bill.

According to the senator, the president laughed good-naturedly at the complaint and signaled that he had received the message.

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A few hours later, America First announced it was pausing its advertising assault against Mr. Heller, insisting it was doing so because of his willingness to come to the White House meeting with Mr. Trump.

America First was founded by a group of Mr. Trump’s loyalists — many of them with deep connections to Mr. Pence, including Nick Ayers, a Republican consultant who is regarded as the vice president’s top political adviser. The group compared Mr. Heller to Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, and vowed a seven-figure advertising campaign against him.

Mr. Heller, the only Senate Republican who will face voters next year in a state carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016, is the top target for Democrats facing a Senate map with few opportunities in 2018. And there were already seven groups — a mix of health care advocacy organizations and more partisan Democratic efforts — on the air in Nevada assailing the Republican health care overhaul, according to a Republican ad buyer tracking the ad traffic.

Neither Mr. McConnell’s office nor his top outside political advisers were warned about an impending attack on one of their most endangered incumbents. “They didn’t check in with anybody,” said Josh Holmes, Mr. McConnell’s former chief of staff. “There was no clearing of channels, Cheap wholesale jerseys, no heads-up, nothing.”

Republican senators across the ideological spectrum have indicated their unease with the health bill. But Mr. Trump has few ties with the group, and several Republicans who remain on the fence have tangled with Mr. Trump, either during the presidential campaign or since.

Top Trump lieutenants like Stephen K. Bannon, his chief strategist, who lobbied members on the House bill, have been all but sidelined. Mr. Priebus has also played a much diminished role.

Mr. Pence has been far more active in seeking out Republican senators. Seema Verma, Mr. Pence’s former adviser in the Indiana Statehouse and now a top administration health care official, has also been trying to reassure senators that their states will have flexibility on Medicaid under the bill, while Mr. Pence’s former chief of staff, Marc Short, now the White House legislative affairs director, has been quarterbacking the effort from his hideaway in the Capitol.

Until Tuesday’s meeting at the White House, Mr. Trump had spoken with only a few members of the Senate, according to an administration official. The pace was nothing like the dozens of calls he made to help pass the House’s health bill, aides said.

A senator who supports the bill left the meeting at the White House with a sense that the president did not have a grasp of some basic elements of the Senate plan — and seemed especially confused when a moderate Republican complained that opponents of the bill would cast it as a massive tax break for the wealthy, according to an aide who received a detailed readout of the exchange.

Mr. Trump said he planned to tackle tax reform later, ignoring the repeal’s tax implications, the staff member added.

After the meeting, Mr. Trump played the role of cheerleader on Twitter, encouraging his weary Republican allies to keep working.

“I just finished a great meeting with the Republican Senators concerning HealthCare,” he wrote. “They really want to get it right, unlike OCare!”

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The Senate Democratic whip, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, cheap jerseys, said the report by the Congressional Budget Office “did more to strike a dagger to the heart of this Republican repeal than anything else.”
In 2026, the budget office said, 15 million fewer people would have Medicaid coverage under the Senate bill than under the Affordable Care Act, and seven million fewer people would have coverage they purchased on their own. Faced with deep cuts in Medicaid, the report said, state officials would face unpalatable choices: restrict eligibility, eliminate services, reduce payments to health care providers and health plans, or spend more of their own money.

Appearing in Washington, Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio cited the 22 million projection and expressed bewilderment that fellow Republicans would be on board with the bill.

“And they think that’s great?” he asked. “That’s good public policy? What, are you kidding me?”

Doctors, hospitals and other health care provider groups have come out strongly against the Senate bill, cheap snapback hats, as have patient advocacy groups like the American Heart Association. But business groups were ramping up their support. In a letter on Tuesday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged senators to vote for the bill.

The Senate bill “will repeal the most egregious taxes and mandates” of the Affordable Care Act, allowing employers to create more jobs, said Jack Howard, a senior vice president of the group. The bill, he noted, would repeal a tax on medical devices and eliminate penalties on large employers that do not offer coverage to employees.

A separate letter expressing general support for the Senate’s efforts was sent by a coalition of business and employer groups including the National Association of Home Builders, the National Restaurant Association and the National Retail Federation.


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But Senate conservatives found themselves squeezed between business sentiment and their conservative base. The Club for Growth, a conservative group, came out against the Senate measure on Tuesday. The organization’s president, wholesale jerseys china, David McIntosh, noted that congressional Republicans had “promised to repeal every word” of the Affordable Care Act.

“Only in Washington does repeal translate to restore,” he said. “Because that’s exactly what the Senate G.O.P. health care bill does: It restores Obamacare.”

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Series loss to the spurs, the rockets this season's campaign is already all over, the achievement of the western conference semifinals might have regrets, but for the experts widely before the start of the season to watch good team can get such a result is very good. For the rockets this season, so can play the wonderful firepower strongest, and record the perimeter ability, most should thank is their perimeter players, they are in the middle of the playoff with their own style, cheap nba hats, although the state has ups and downs, but they are able to performance or worthy of all praise.

In their series against the thunder, Louis Williams became the most trusted DE Anthony snipers, to some extent, he shot than harden to err on the side, even in the face of five series of thunder, Louis Williams to use average of 18.8 points score into the thunder and rocket series behind, westbrook and harden scorer, only 7 million annual salary of Louis Williams make para ora di wave look very embarrassed, regardless of sharp perimeter sniper, Williams ball ability also still deep, spiritual breakthrough let him can easily torn up defenses, even wiese brooke on Williams to eat a few times, if there is no excellent play Williams, perhaps with thunder series is not really a 4-1 aggregate looked so relaxed.

As DE Anthony rejoice with Louis Williams such bench level scorer, god gave him a blow with the SAN Antonio spurs series, crawford Smith the streaky scorer up points to let them moment look like a superstar, but once they dozen iron to the same terrible, Louis Williams also belongs to a member of the streaky scorer, in series with the spurs, he completely lost themselves, he averaged data decreased from 18.8 to 18.8 points, is less than twenty percent is horrible, from three in the final two games of the key, Louis Williams at the three-point line out hand six hits and Louis Williams really is like a double-edged sword to let a person glad to sorrow, how to maintain their stability, and become his biggest problem.

Eric Gordon became the rockets in the playoffs this season play the most stable, and the thunder of the series and the series with the spurs, he averaged almost no change, in the playoffs, Gordon took a rocket fire, most of the three points in DE Anthony is given priority to with three points of offense he and Louis Williams become rocket squad under the top gun. The leg injury may have deprived him of the ability to hit the rim of the basket, but he has also made the perfect sixth man. When harden was there, the ball was constantly breaking through the pitch, cheap nfl fitted hats, and what Gordon needed to do was to keep the ball running without the ball. But it is such a stable let Eric looks presence is not high, such as every stable into several three points, hit a few times cic, habitual became his outstanding performance, compared with the regular season first 3-pointer total pressure Arsenal striker, his performances in the playoffs is too flat to the person, the bayonet see red in the playoffs, need is to be able to pick up the slack when Lord can't open the situation, as harden when in a rage, in many desperate circumstances, the team gave the ball to harden to execute, Eric Gordon, dare to stand up when harden can't open over the ball.

Two perimeter defender in the playoffs for the rockets can go to the western conference semifinals to contribute very much, in the first scene, with little rockets in the playoffs this year, Patrick Beverly their career playoff played the most representative of the first world war, he scored 21 points and 10 rebounds, 2 steals to help the rockets have a 31 points in the first round of victory, and in the middle of the third quarter, in hot pursuit of thunder, Beverly hit two consecutive three points, the expanded to double digits, and help the rockets after that momentum for which the rocket to accept. In the series, Beverly never afraid and less positive confrontation, he forever tireless close to live less to deplete fewer can volumetric flask, eventually series game averaging 11.6 points and 6.2 rebounds, 3 assists 1.8 steals data become the vanguard to win. In the SAN Antonio series, he was equally good at limiting the spurs' perimeter players. Both manu ginobili and mills, although have wonderful moments, but in the face of Beverly, their ball or shooting is very afflictive, in the park after the season, injured on starting in the face of Beverly's tight defense, Murray is very nervous, continuous was broken. On the offensive end Beverly data is still not too big, is averaging 10.7 points and 4.7 rebounds, three assists also worth affirmation, although the lack of the representative like the first round of the first scene, with small game, but for a salary of only 8 million defense corps, his performance is perfect,

In series with the thunder, ariza data sheet looks poor can only be used to describe, in a defensive with other small forward Andre - Robertson's ranking, it fully fall in, and in the defense of his most good at in counterpoint and the less he is no better than Robertson restrictions on harden, but this kind of played more than ten years in the league veteran never need to worry about their own state, in the western conference semifinals against the SAN Antonio spurs, trevor ariza was a full blood resurrection, his data to rise to the averaged 14.5 points and 5.5 rebounds, cheap nfl snapback hats, shooting from the field and more than forty-five percent, on the offensive end, trevor ariza doesn't account for the ball, very few mistakes, his bottom line three points can let opponents despair. In both defense and experience, trevor ariza is one of the most important players in the rockets. In his first match against SAN Antonio, he scored 23 points and scored 23 points in a 3-pointer, scoring 20 points in two games in the series. And he for the first round of play stunning Leonard also made his own maximum limit, 32, on the court with him will not spare his own strength, as long as he is on the pitch, the rocket's perimeter defense wouldn't have to worry about, he never tireless waving his long arms to successfully interference opponent's shot. As he did a few years ago, he never got a decent personal honor, but the team couldn't miss the number one. Ariza proved his attitude with real action, his long arm, his pursuit, and his complement was an important defense weapon for the rockets.

The emperor also dropped the powder

Warriors center Mr Chu in the first world war in the west once again, Leonard of defending the cic, because always steps forward, then lead to falling Leonard stepping on instep to injury. Warriors also after it hit a 19-2 attack wave, cheap ncaa jerseys, will be 20 cent cent difference recover and win the game, is each big media reports, the warriors and therefore under certain pressure.

When it comes to "support" event, the mighty acting coach brown said: "it is obvious that a chain of events happened, slip the first step on the David - li foot sprained my ankle, and then this happened. Next, probably after one or two rounds, Stephen (Treasury) shots, marcus - lamarcus aldridge also come forward to interference, and drill a Stephen beneath. Stephen through the ground to avoid the twist feet."

In fact, in the high strength competition, often appear such controversial foul, some decision series, some individual to decide their own future development. Let's take a look at these so-called controversial fouls in recent years.

The James finals cross green

This across the green is considered by experts as a "plot" foul, experts say, James has hesitated, why across in the past, cheap soccer jerseys, try to ask who can endure his crotch's disgrace, and number of green technical fouls was full open, isn't this planning foul? In fact, after the foul, the king didn't like the James fan and said James lost the ball

2, green twice "controversial private placement"

The western conference finals and thunder 73 - warrior race out of level the height, but in a rage at home because of the green "legs" play to the place with close illicit, Adams's public opinion pressure, low green and all the mighty players, 73 - winning the division is forced into the tiebreak war. But green was suspended after he attacked his private site for revenge James in the finals. The warriors were also turned over by a knight in a 1-3 situation. The two fouls upset most of the fans, and Greene was also black

Beverley was threatened by death

In the wake of the thunder and Houston playoffs, westbrook's logo was called for a pause, and beverley was trying to catch up with one of the missing players to try to get the ball out of the way. In Beverly after public pressure, received a death threat information, even though after the black fans explain their mobile phone hacked off, cheap MLB Hats, but also the controversial foul an unprecedented pressure.

The former warrior is the new king of Europe

Rockets general manager daryl morey has always liked players from Europe mining, Beverly is a masterpiece of morey mining, now he has a chance to name another Beverly miracle. One player who played in the NBA and then played in Europe, cheap mlb jerseys, has the capital to regain his footing in the NBA. He has just led fenerbahce to the champions league and has won the champions league in the champions league.

Especially in the champions league semifinal and final, he became the hero of fenerbahce. In the early morning finale of May 22, fenerbahce unexpectedly thrashed olympiakos with 80 to 64. All know that the Greek army strong defense, have never thought fenerbahce played a more tenacious defense, thanks to Mr Much occupied the box, he scored 10 points, nine rebounds and four assists and five blocked shots. Udo's tough defense gave fenerbahce a lot of the chance to fight back, and the team managed to control the tempo and beat olympiakos.

After the champions league semi-final, especially showed the strong side more on the offensive end, he led 84-75 victory over real Madrid, scored 18 points and 12 rebounds and eight assists and two blocks, the data is very comprehensive. The former NBA player, who has been more than happy in the NBA, has finally shown his talent in the face of the European famous coach. He became a well-balanced and pass-able center,cheap nba jerseys,  with 12 assists in two games and the first in the team.

With outstanding performance, especially more indisputably won the champions league final four MVP, and he in the champions league this season averaged 12.3 points, 7.4 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 2.4 blocks per game, in the champions league the best squad.

The change of the season will naturally lead to the attention of NBA teams. He hopes to get a new contract from the NBA this summer. Especially the first overall pick in the NBA draft that 2010 more drafted by the warriors, the line before he is to take an examination of hyacinth, and in particular behind including Monroe, hayward, Paul, George and others. It is a natural gift to be in such a high position. He is 2 meters in height and 2 meters in arms. He is a defensive monster. Unfortunately, there was no such thing as the bucks, and then the bucks and the clippers. At that time, nfl jerseys cheap, most of them were suffering from injuries and lack of self-confidence.

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But now, more than any other European experience has found confidence. The rocket manager, who has always been so focused on tapping European players, is likely to chase more than a few. Rockets coach d 'antoni has put something to strive for next season's defensive team into the top ten, but the team is very need to add a good defensive bigs, ease the pressure on card peralta. The value of the rockets is not too high, and they are ideal for filling the holes in the rockets. Not only can you bring a defense, but your ability to pass the ball can also change the rockets.

Morey Beverly used to find out the cheap and fine, but also had had failed examples, such as signing in Europe 2014-15 season well more than the west, but the latter does not meet expectations, morey will it off soon. However, cheap nhl jerseys, the gift is much higher than that of dorsey, and it would be a great addition to the rockets if morley could sign him.