GOP senators blindsided by Trump on ObamaCare
By Alexander Bolton - 03/27/19 06:27 PM EDT
Republican lawmakers were caught completely off guard by President Trump’s renewed push to repeal and replace ObamaCare and privately complain it’s a dumb political strategy heading into the 2020 election.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), whose panel has jurisdiction over health care, said he received no heads up from Trump or the White House that the president would call Tuesday for the GOP to become “the party of health care.â€
“I don’t think there was any heads up on anything that he was going to say,†said Grassley, who added that he didn’t even know Trump was meeting with the GOP conference on Tuesday until Monday night.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the chairman of another key panel that handles health care, said he didn’t know about Trump’s new health care push until the president tweeted about it at 11:58 a.m. Tuesday, shortly before he walked into a Republican conference lunch to announce it in person.
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