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发帖数: 29576 | 1 Trump the Dealmaker Projects Bravado, but Behind the Scenes, Faces Rare Self
-Doubt
By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN
MARCH 23, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump, the author of “The Art of the Deal,” has
been projecting his usual bravado in public this week about the prospects of
repealing the Affordable Care Act. Privately he is grappling with rare
bouts of self-doubt.
Mr. Trump has told four people close to him that he regrets going along with
Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s plan to push a health care overhaul before
unveiling a tax cut proposal more politically palatable to Republicans.
He said ruefully this week that he should have done tax reform first when it
became clear that the quick-hit health care victory he had hoped for was
not going to materialize on Thursday, the seventh anniversary of the act’s
passage.
Two of his most influential advisers — Stephen K. Bannon, his chief
strategist, and Gary D. Cohn, the National Economic Council director, who
initially was in favor of pushing the bill — came to agree, and did not
like the compromise that was emerging. So on Thursday night, Mr. Trump used
one of his frequent negotiating tactics: an ultimatum.
He dispatched his budget adviser, Mick Mulvaney, to a conference of House
Republicans and told them they had to vote on Friday. And if the bill fails,
he said, the president will move on.
A president who prefers unilateral executive action and takes intense pride
in his ability to cut deals finds himself in a humbling negotiation unlike
any other in his career, pinned between moderates who believe the health
care measure is too harsh, and a larger group of fiscal conservatives adept
at using their leverage to scuttle big deals cut by other Republican leaders.
Over the years, Mr. Trump has proved to be a resilient operator, and even
his most scathing critics do not rule out his ability to pull off some kind
of a deal, even at a late hour.
“I don’t know whether he will ultimately succeed or fail, but I will tell
you that President Trump is so transactional, who knows what transactions he
will be willing to make to pass this,” said Representative Nancy Pelosi,
the Democratic leader, who passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010 as speaker.
“So far he’s acting like a rookie. It’s really been amateur hour,” she
added. “He seems to think that a charm offensive or a threat will work —
that saying ‘I can do this for you’ or ‘I can do this against you’ will
work. That’s not the way it works. You have to build real consensus, and
you have a to gain a real knowledge of the policy — and the president hasn
’t done either of those things.”
Crashing on the shoals of Congress marks Mr. Trump’s first true encounter
with legislative realities and the realization that a president’s power is
less limitless than it appears, particularly in the face of an intransigent
voting bloc. Mr. Trump is not used to a hard no — but that was the word of
the week.
Before he sent Mr. Mulvaney to Capitol Hill to deliver his message Thursday
night, the president had met with recalcitrant lawmakers at the White House.
Mr. Trump reiterated his veiled threat that Republicans who voted no would
be punished by constituents who demand they fulfill their promises to roll
back the law. He made clear to members of the House Freedom Caucus during a
testy hourlong face-off in the Cabinet Room that they were going to have
only have one chance fulfill their vows of repealing and replacing the
health law, and this was it, according to people who were in the room.
If Mr. Trump has any advantage in the negotiations, it is his ideological
flexibility: He is more interested in a win, or avoiding a loss, than any of
the arcane policy specifics of the complicated measure, according to a
dozen aides and allies interviewed over the past week who described his mood
as impatient and jittery.
To Mr. Trump and his team, the health care repeal is a troublesome stepchild
. He wants to fulfill his party’s pledge to roll back President Obama’s
signature accomplishment, but only as a prelude to building his wall,
cutting taxes and pushing his $1 trillion infrastructure package.
But resistance from his own party forced Mr. Ryan to delay the vote — even
if he cast it as a take-it-or-leave-it deal.
It did not work. Until this week, Mr. Trump was slow to recognize the high
stakes of the fight, or the implications of losing. He approved the agenda
putting health care first late last year, almost in passing, in meetings
with Mr. Ryan, Vice President Mike Pence and Reince Priebus, the White House
chief of staff.
Staff members agreed on a hasty rollout strategy during weekend meetings
earlier this month — with Mr. Pence suggesting that the president maintain
distance from the proposal, urging him to refer to the bill as Mr. Ryan’s
creation, according to senior Republicans.
Only in the past two weeks, as Mr. Trump focused on his ongoing defense of
accusations that his presidential campaign colluded with Russia, has he
focused his energies and powers of persuasion on ramming through a proposal
that is likely to result in the loss of health insurance for millions,
according to Congressional Budget Office estimates.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump made a key concession to fiscal hawks by agreeing to
scrap the health care law’s provision mandating “essential benefits” —
like outpatient visits, mental health services and some maternity care — in
a bid to lower premiums. But that was not enough. Representative Mark
Meadows, the North Carolina Republican who leads the Freedom Caucus, said he
was still a no.
That concession also risked alienating center-right Republicans in the House
and Senate, where the bill already faced an uncertain fate.
“In order to get this bill out of the House, they have pushed this bill too
far to the right,” said Representative Charlie Dent, a moderate
Pennsylvania Republican who planned to vote against the legislation. “It’s
a mistake. Even if it passes, the Senate will never accept it.”
David Winston, a pollster who works with the House Republican leadership,
said the delay could block Mr. Trump’s entire agenda. “You’re not looking
at health care in isolation; you’re looking at an agenda that they want to
pursue, and obviously the next big one coming up is going to be tax reform,
” he said. “Whichever came first was going to set up the other.”
But Thursday’s reality check came with a Trumpian dose of the surreal.
Mr. Trump appeared almost oblivious to the dire situation unfolding in the
hours after he hosted a meeting with members of the House Freedom Caucus at
the White House, where he made the case Mr. Winston pointed to — that not
passing the health bill risks the rest of the Republican agenda.
In the midafternoon, a beaming Mr. Trump climbed into the rig of a black
tractor-trailer, which had been driven to the White House for an event with
trucking industry executives, honking the horn and posing for a series of
tough-guy photos — one with his fists held aloft, another staring straight
ahead, hands gripping the large wheel, his face compressed into an excited
scream.
At a meeting inside shortly after that, Mr. Trump announced that he was
pressed for time and needed to go make calls for more votes.
A reporter informed him that the vote had already been called off. | i**********k
发帖数: 5274 | 2 一看到NYT的文章，就知道是狗屁，任何可信度都没有。老头是绝对要把奥黑医保操翻
的。这个法案还要大幅修改。奥黑法案让它自生自灭好了。 | H***u
发帖数: 1091 | 3 老川要跑！快派人堵住他！不然会跑进中国大使馆就麻烦了，又一个川立军！ | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 4 医改最难办，改好见效要几年，改坏马上被骂死。先税改有一定道理
: 一看到NYT的文章，就知道是狗屁，任何可信度都没有。老头是绝对要把奥黑医
保操翻
: 的。这个法案还要大幅修改。奥黑法案让它自生自灭好了。
【在 i**********k 的大作中提到】
: 一看到NYT的文章，就知道是狗屁，任何可信度都没有。老头是绝对要把奥黑医保操翻
: 的。这个法案还要大幅修改。奥黑法案让它自生自灭好了。
| i**********k
发帖数: 5274 | 5 主要是过去八年把龙虾族胃口养大了。米犹媒体都不提国债增加了10兆，哪里还有那么
多钱养龙虾族。
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: 医改最难办，改好见效要几年，改坏马上被骂死。先税改有一定道理
:
:
: 一看到NYT的文章，就知道是狗屁，任何可信度都没有。老头是绝对要把奥黑医
: 保操翻
:
: 的。这个法案还要大幅修改。奥黑法案让它自生自灭好了。
:
| T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 6 obamacare 很大部分是福利，这玩意在民主国家发下出没有能取消的，除非国家破产强
迫的
: 主要是过去八年把龙虾族胃口养大了。米犹媒体都不提国债增加了10兆，哪里还
有那么
: 多钱养龙虾族。
【在 i**********k 的大作中提到】
: 主要是过去八年把龙虾族胃口养大了。米犹媒体都不提国债增加了10兆，哪里还有那么
: 多钱养龙虾族。
| a******5
发帖数: 2062 | 7 现在他只要通过，就可以宣布胜利。至于里面的内容究竟如何，他不管。他只要一个可
以宣布胜利的借口。好大喜功。 | s*****l
发帖数: 7106 | 8 你丫怎么这么幼稚呢
【在 a******5 的大作中提到】
: 现在他只要通过，就可以宣布胜利。至于里面的内容究竟如何，他不管。他只要一个可
: 以宣布胜利的借口。好大喜功。
| s****y
发帖数: 491 | 9 就算有可能repeal,看样子床铺班子也没有这个执行力，连完全是面子工程的Muslim
ban都虎头蛇尾，难度高的healthcare reform, tax reform, immigration reform更不
敢抱什么希望
: obamacare 很大部分是福利，这玩意在民主国家发下出没有能取消的，除非国家
破产强
: 迫的
: 有那么
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: obamacare 很大部分是福利，这玩意在民主国家发下出没有能取消的，除非国家破产强
: 迫的
:
:
: 主要是过去八年把龙虾族胃口养大了。米犹媒体都不提国债增加了10兆，哪里还
: 有那么
:
: 多钱养龙虾族。
:
| j******p
发帖数: 8333 | 10 虎头蛇尾个毛。都是不要脸的左逼法官纠结着不放。
【在 s****y 的大作中提到】
: 就算有可能repeal,看样子床铺班子也没有这个执行力，连完全是面子工程的Muslim
: ban都虎头蛇尾，难度高的healthcare reform, tax reform, immigration reform更不
: 敢抱什么希望
:
:
: obamacare 很大部分是福利，这玩意在民主国家发下出没有能取消的，除非国家
: 破产强
:
: 迫的
:
: 有那么
:
| s****y
发帖数: 491 | 11 哦，不是国军无能，是共军不肯束手就擒
: 虎头蛇尾个毛。都是不要脸的左逼法官纠结着不放。
【在 j******p 的大作中提到】
: 虎头蛇尾个毛。都是不要脸的左逼法官纠结着不放。
| k******0
发帖数: 2438 | | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 13 Travel ban 怎么写左 B 都要告，现在一步步打官司到最高法吧，到时候新大法官应该
上任了
: 哦，不是国军无能，是共军不肯束手就擒
【在 s****y 的大作中提到】
: 哦，不是国军无能，是共军不肯束手就擒
:
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: 虎头蛇尾个毛。都是不要脸的左逼法官纠结着不放。
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| C*******h
发帖数: 6095 | 14 别理它。如果老头儿不理法院，它就会说老头儿独裁。理了，它现在就说老头儿没用。
老头儿无论做啥它都能黑老头儿。
【在 j******p 的大作中提到】
: 虎头蛇尾个毛。都是不要脸的左逼法官纠结着不放。
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