Philip Bump: “In two weeks, President Trump and his team would like to assure you, everything will fall into place. The only problem is that this is a rolling prediction: everything is always just about 14 days from becoming reality, as it was two weeks ago and as it will be two weeks hence. There has perhaps been no more frequently promised product than Trump’s comprehensive proposal on health care. Over and over, Trump has insisted that there will be something to replace the Affordable Care Act. Over and over, he has set deadlines for when it will come. Over and over, those deadlines pass.”
“On Tuesday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked when Trump’s proposal would appear, given that he promised it by Aug. 2 and then by Aug. 21 and then by Aug. 31. ‘The president, in the next week or so, will be laying out his vision for health care,’ McEnany said in response to a reporter’s question. ‘Some of that has already been put out there, like telemedicine and lowering the cost of drugs, but the president — and protecting preexisting conditions. But the president will be laying out some additional health-care steps in the coming, I would say, two weeks.’ Sure, Okay. It’s not like we’ve heard that before.”