The president went to Capitol Hill to try to sway the undecided House Republicans before Thursday’s vote on the GOP health care plan<\/b>
President Trump told the House GOP conference that failure to pass their health care bill would cost many of them their seats, if not Republican control of the House, a person in the room told CBS News.
On a trip to Capitol Hill Tuesday morning, the president, who was greeted by the conference with a loud and enthusiastic standing ovation, spent much of his time with them trying to convince them to vote for the GOP health care bill. He reminded them that many of them had been elected on their pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare. He told them, I honestly think many of you will lose your seats in 2018 if you don\u2019t get this done.
Moreover, if the House doesn\u2019t pass this bill, he predicted that Republicans would lose the House in 2018. The House is scheduled to vote on the Republican bill, named the American Healthcare Act, on Thursday.
The president said to Republicans, we\u2019re going to be so embarrassed Thursday if we vote this down. This legislation is one of the great victories, and we don\u2019t want to blow it, Mr. Trump added.
The president pointed out that the House has in the past easily voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
\u201cI say — you vote how many times to repeal? How many times, Paul? You kept passing it and passing and passing.\u201d
And now, he said, you have the chance to pass it, and some of you don\u2019t want to get it done? We\u2019re gonna get it done, he told the lawmakers. This majority won\u2019t last long if you blow it, he told them pointedly, adding, \u201cAnd I don\u2019t care if the press prints that.\u201d
President Trump heads to Capitol Hill to make his final pitch before Thursday’s vote in the House to repeal and replace Obamacare. The president…
The president pointed to Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows and said he believed Meadows and his caucus would vote with Republicans on the bill. \u201cBecause honestly, a loss is not acceptable, folks,\u201d Mr. Trump said.
He also reiterated his commitment to getting Senate Democrats to vote for phase three of the bill. And then, he told them that he wanted to move on to what he referred to as an aggressive 200-day agenda.
\u201cThe higher the vote the better,\u201d Mr. Trump said, in closing his push for the bill.
On his way out of the meeting, the president called the health care plan \u201ctremendous.\u201d He said that \u201cthere are going to be adjustments made\u201d to the bill, \u201cbut I think we\u2019ll get the vote on Thursday.\u201d
But it\u2019s not yet clear that Speaker Paul Ryan has the votes to pass the Affordable Care Act (ACA) replacement. Late Monday night, GOP leaders released a list of proposed changes to the American Healthcare Act aimed at appealing to both conservatives and moderates who do not yet support the bill. The changes would provide help for older people, accelerate the repeal of some of the ACA tax hikes and stop Medicaid\u2019s growth this year instead of in 2018.
After the president\u2019s meeting, Ryan was optimistic, though. He told reporters that the president had come to \u201cclose the deal,\u201d and, turning to a baseball metaphor, said, \u201cThe president just came here and knocked the ball out of the park…. He knocked the cover off the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

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