House GOP struggles over budget blueprint signal bigger problems for Trump agenda | CNN Politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Since then, he and his leadership team – with help from Trump – have been furiously trying to twist the arms of their own members for the evening vote.
43% : “I assume that President Trump will probably be calling them to say, you are standing in the way of my agenda,” said Rep. August Pfluger, a Texas Republican who leads the conservative Republican Study Committee.
43% : “Well, I’m still making my point all the way to the end about the need to protect the services that are important to my district,” said Arizona Rep. Juan Ciscomani, who is one of the swing-district House Republicans who has warned Johnson directly about potential cuts to programs like Medicaid, food assistance and Pell grants.
41% : House Republicans have stressed publicly and privately that their budget blueprint does not contain cuts to Medicaid.
37% : Johnson and his whip team had spent the last several days trying to win over their more moderate members, many of whom had raised concerns that the budget plan could ultimately lead to cuts to the low-income health program Medicaid.
35% : Hours before the scheduled vote, hardline conservatives insist there aren’t enough spending cuts in the plan, even as centrist-leaning Republicans remain uneasy about the size of those cuts and whether they could impact popular programs like Medicaid.
34% : Trump himself plans to step up the pressure campaign with the president set to meet with a group of House Republicans Tuesday afternoon.
19% : So far, Republicans from northeastern states have been particularly wary of plans to cut $880 billion over a decade from federal health and energy programs, which they fear cannot be achieved without cutting Medicaid, the hugely expensive health program, since Trump has vowed not to touch Medicare.

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