Fri Mar 31, 2017 AT 1:06 PM EDT
Top outside groups are urging Republican leadership to put together and pass a new Obamacare repeal plan that will be amenable with conservatives, reports The Hill.
Thu Mar 30, 2017 AT 1:44 PM EDT
President Trump effectively declared war Thursday on the House Freedom Caucus, the powerful group of hard-line conservative Republicans who blocked the health-care bill, vowing to “fight them” in the 2018 midterm elections.
In a morning tweet, Trump warned that the Freedom Caucus would “hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don’t get on the team, & fast.” He grouped its members, all of them Republican, with Democrats in calling for their political defeat — an extraordinary incitement of intraparty combat from a sitting president, reports The Washington Post.
Wed Mar 29, 2017 AT 3:06 PM EDT
President Trump’s overall job approval is at 40 percent, underpinned by continuing strong support from Republicans who don’t appear to blame him for the failed health care bill, a new CBS News Poll shows, reports CBS News.