Trump Demands Yet Another Obamacare Vote

Wherever Trump is today, it’s obviously too rainy to play golf since he just posted his tenth whining tweet of the day. NBC News reports:



After a series of GOP failures to pass any health care legislation this week, President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare was not dead — “unless the Republican Senators are total quitters.” Earlier in the day Trump used Twitter to declare that Republicans “look like fools” a day after they failed to pass a “skinny” health care plan, which he followed with threats to insurance companies and lawmakers.

“If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon,” he said in a Saturday morning tweetstorm. The Trump administration already cancelled $5 million in HealthCare.gov ads that advertised the upcoming enrollment season, and the president is now threatening to withhold federal payments that help reduce insurance premiums — particularly for low-income people — and keep companies in the market.