Senate Health Care Bill Gets Lukewarm White House Reaction
Source: Roll Call
Tepid response follows cheerleading from Mike Pence
Posted Jun 22, 2017 3:08 PM
John T. Bennett
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President Donald Trump and his top aides responded to the health care overhaul bill crafted by Senate GOP leaders with striking silence, even after Vice President Mike Pence said a final vote must happen in the next few weeks.
The White House did not issue any paper statement about the bill under Trump’s name nor that of any senior official. And when Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders briefed reports a few hours after the bill was made public, she declined to discuss any of its contents.
In fact, she said there are no plans — for now, at least — for the president to comment on any provision in the Senate bill. She did say Trump is “pleased to see the process moving forward” — and the “process” is the only thing she would discuss as reporters tried again and again to glean clarity on the president’s views of the legislation.
Sanders described the president as mostly focused on “the final product,” which, should the Senate pass an amended version of the bill unveiled Thursday, would be the product of a House-Senate conference committee’s work to hammer out differences in their bills.
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So someone told someone that the House "bill" was neither the final version nor the "law", despite the grand ceremony in the Rose Garden with GOP hoods high-fiving it in front of the media while everyone outside of the beltway shook their heads, chortled at their abject stupidity, and bemoaned their craven evilness... And sure enough, whatever the Senate puts together is also not "the law" until it is reconciled with the House version, BOTH chambers vote to pass it, and Drumpf signs it. 
