Democrat Steny Hoyer shows just how partisan he can be over Trump’s first 100 days, threatening to tell Democrats to vote against the one week stop-gap funding bill if Republicans bring the health care bill to the floor for a vote:
Hoyer says if GOP brings health care bill to flr this wk, he will advise Dems to oppose 1-wk stopgap spending bill. Rs need Ds to pass bill
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 27, 2017
Here’s more:
WASHINGTON TIMES – House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said Thursday he will encourage Democrats to oppose a funding bill designed to buy time for 2017 spending talks if Republicans hurtle forward with a vote on their health care bill before the 100th day of President Trump’s term.
Mr. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, said the GOP should either pump the brakes on its push to repeal and replace Obamacare or “be prepared to pass a one-week continuing Resolution on their own,” increasing the changes of a government shutdown when current funding expires at midnight Friday.
“If Republicans announce their intention to bring their harmful Trumpcare bill to the House floor tomorrow or Saturday, I will oppose a one-week Continuing Resolution and will advise House Democrats to oppose it as well,” Mr. Hoyer said.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said his team hasn’t scheduled a vote on health care yet.
The spending bill proposed by House Republicans late Wednesday would extend funding through May 5, averting a partial shutdown that would ensue without any more money in the pipeline.
Negotiations on the full 2017 bill hit snags earlier this week when Democrats insisted on including controversial Obamacare money and President Trump insisted on initial funding for his border wall. Mr. Trump eventually dropped his wall demands, and Democrats on Wednesday relented on their Obamacare demand after the administration made clear it wouldn’t unilaterally halt payments.
The new bill would buy seven days to finalize a full 2017 deal.
Now, Democrats are using the spending process as leverage against the GOP’s Obamacare repeal plan, which gathered critical votes on Wednesday from hard-line conservatives who helped sink the GOP’s first Obamacare repeal attempt.
Cleary Hoyer isn’t interested in anything but obstruction. He doesn’t want Trump to have a legislative accomplishment in his first 100 days and is doing everything he can to derail it.
What a schmuck.