Convicted felon President Trump’s command for Republicans to “be flexible” with the Hyde Amendment when working on their probably-doomed healthcare legislation has fucked things up, one anonymous GOP senator tells Punchbowl News. If Trump “felt strongly enough to prod us in public, why doesn’t he send his advisers to come meet with us and work out a deal? If the White House embraces a deal that’s squishy on Hyde, I have no doubt in the world that he can convince enough of us to vote for it,” the senator said, calling Trump lazy and uninterested in the brass tacks.
Making shit worse is the fact that Dems have teed up the discharge petition vote on a no-string-attached three-year extension of the Obamacare subsidies, putting pressure on the Senate GOP.