Chad Pergram at Fox News reports that Republicans just picked up a major ‘yes’ vote on the health care bill. It’s considered major because Ted Yoho, who sits on the Freedom Caucus, has not supported the bill until now:
GOP picks up major yea vote on health care. Conservative GOP FL Rep Ted Yoho tells Fox is he is now "a yes, under duress."
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 27, 2017
GOP FL Rep Ted Yoho says he's now yea on health care, but says GOP bill isn't repeal/replace of Obamacare
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 27, 2017
Yoho on why he's now for health care bill. Had been a nay. "The English philosopher Mick Jagger said 'You can't always get what you want'"
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 27, 2017
Yoho describes his yes being under duress. I think that’s probably how most in the Freedom Caucus see it.
As I suggested earlier in the comments section, if you want to blame someone, blame Trump and Ryan. They promised repeal and then reneged. Trump could have used his authority as president to push the Republican leadership toward full repeal. But he didn’t and the Republican leadership tried to sell us Obamacare lite. Trump was totally ok with that.
The one thing that members of the Freedom Caucus are not doing is lying to us about the bill. They readily acknowledge it isn’t full repeal and aren’t happy about it. But unfortunately, the cards are stacked against them and this is likely the best they can do.
Here’s more on tonight:
Source tells Fox "we could be in for a long nite" as GOPers way to decide to rpt a rule on health care or punt.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 27, 2017
Source tells Fox it's possible Hse could only tee up rule to deal w/CR to avoid gov't shutdown tonight & not on health care
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 27, 2017