BigRedBuster Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 But the Freedom Caucus already revolted because the healthcare plan that Ryan drew up (and Trump stood behind enthusiastically) wasn't conservative enough. Now, it appears they're all on the same page on tax cuts, mostly. But their broader tax reform agenda seems to be up in the air because they couldn't pass healthcare in the first place, and they don't all seem to agree on this border-adjustment tax issue. If his plans aren't sufficiently conservative, I think the GOP remains a risk to torpedo his agenda. I don't think they'll simply go along if he starts morphing into a liberal willy nilly. But a lot of this depends on public perception and poll numbers. I was mainly talking about the voters. Trump backed Ryan's plan and the vast majority of his voters backed it and thought it should have been passed. They blame the Freedom Caucus for not allowing it to pass. Now....another health bill will be put forth and Trump will back it. His voters will go right along and claim it's a great bill and needs to pass. They really have no clue what is actually in any of these bills. They just know Trump backs it so it must be part of "Making America Great" again. In reality, if you put what has been proposed by Republicans for health care in front of these people and not tell them who proposed it, they would revolt against it and claim it's socialism and government controlling our lives and wasting our money. PS...I'm talking about the proposal to auto-enroll people into healthcare. Link to comment
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