Health care holdout Heller attends Trump re-election fundraiser

[riversedge]

Source: Review-Journal




Updated June 29, 2017 - 3:01 pm

WASHINGTON — A $10 million fundraiser to aid the re-election of President Donald Trump was attended by Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, one of a group of lawmakers whose opposition doomed a Senate vote on the repeal and replacement of Obamacare this week.


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Trump did not single out Heller during the fundraiser, but Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas casino owner and the Republican National Committee finance chairman, jabbed the Nevada senator in remarks that urged GOP lawmakers to pass the bill, according to the Associated Press.

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Heller remains in negotiations with other senators who are trying to rewrite the Senate bill that has garnered opposition from conservatives and moderates alike.

Trump barred reporters from attending the event, a break from previous presidents who held fundraisers in their first terms.

Read more: https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/health-care-holdout-heller-attends-trump-re-election-fundraiser/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Ironic as Steve Wynn is almost if not fully blind.

Had he been indigent, he'd need the Medicaid (ACA) to survive.

[Honeycombe8]

2. Heller did not doom the health bill. There were FIVE senators at that time w/issues re the bill.

They only went after Heller because he was the weakest of the group, and had stood on principle of aiding the poor and disabled (unlike those who wanted the bill to be even more cruel).