Pressure to fix the Affordable Care Act was a topic of conversation among top labor leaders and senior White House officials this week, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Obama aides confirmed Thursday. But those involved have been reluctant to say more.
"We were talking about health care, and we'll continue to talk about health care to try to solve problems," Trumka said during a reporters’ roundtable Thursday.
The AFL leader, along with James Hoffa, head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and other labor representatives met Tuesday with President Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough. The visitors declined to chat with reporters about the meeting as they exited the West Wing.
“I was just told internally that we have no comment on that,” Teamsters spokesman Galen Monroe told RCP Thursday.
“We’re not going to flesh out anything further beyond what the White House might wish to chance re: health care conversations,” AFL-CIO spokesman Jeff Hauser added in a similar email.
A White House official, speaking on background, told RCP the president did not attend the meeting.
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Permalink Reply by Charles Bill L.CDurry on The as*hole will problely exempt them from his disaster plan.
Permalink Reply by van nolan price on I smell another big waiver coming, maybe something worse.
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CLINT EASTWOOD AND A ONE SENTENCE EDITORIAL
This one sentence editorial appeared in the Peoria Journal Star:
"A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than a gun
in the hands of 200 million law-abiding citizens."
Then Clint Eastwood added his words . . . . . "We Americans are so tired
of being thought of as dumbasses by the rest of the world that we went to
the polls this past November and removed all doubt."
It appears that Obama is more than willing to scratch the backs of those big burley union guys and have them scratch his in return.
The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, kicked off its first impeachment circus Wednesday morning.
The four ‘witnesses’ testifying have never actually witnessed any of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine firsthand — the four witnesses are law professors offering legal analysis.
One of the witnesses the Dems rolled out is an angry Hillary Clinton donor who was on Crooked’s list for a potential Supreme Court nomination.
No wonder why this unhinged, dowdy woman is so pissed off!
“Professor Pam Karlan donated thousands of dollars to Democrats and was on Hillary Clinton’s list for a potential Supreme Court nomination. So she certainly has no vendetta against President Trump,” GOP Rep. Mark Walker said.
Congressman Walker also pointed out that Noah Feldman, the Dems first partisan witness in Wednesday’s hearing tweeted about impeaching Trump right after he was sworn in.
Rep. Mark Walker RepMarkWalkerMeet Noah Feldman, House Democrats first partisan witness.
Look at the date of this tweet. He has been trying to get @realDonaldTrump impeached since 46 days into his presidency.
His reason? Trump criticized President Obama.
This is a sham impeachment with sham witnesses. https://twitter.com/NoahRFeldman/status/839185127494254592 …Noah Feldman ✔@NoahRFeldmanTrump's wiretap tweets raise risk of impeachment http://bv.ms/2mY1ueX via @BV
Rep. Mark Walker RepMarkWalkerThe next witness, Karlan, has donated thousands to Democrats and was on Hillary Clinton’s list for a potential Supreme Court nomination.
So she certainly has no vendetta against @realDonaldTrump.
These witnesses are as serious as House Democrats impeachment case: not at all.
The entire sham show trial is stacked with partisan hacks who have wanted to impeach Trump from the moment he won in November of 2016.
Norm Eisen, the Democrats’ counsel who is blasting Trump and questioning witnesses in Wednesday’s show trial, tweeted about impeaching Trump before Donald Trump was even sworn into office!
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