Afterward, he said he was "very optimistic that we are getting closer and closer to an agreement repealing Obamacare" - but he said he wasn't entirely convinced yet.
According to a spokesman for the House rules committee, the committee will meet Thursday to put forward an amendment - from Reps.
The Washington Post's Robert Costa reported that the meeting of White House officials including Vice President Mike Pence, White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, and chief strategist Steve Bannon and House leaders including Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy was tense. The following week however, the White House and Congressional Republicans signaled a repeal of the Affordable Care Act was back on the agenda. President Donald Trump needs to score a short-term win on the issue, the vice president emphasized, since otherwise lawmakers may retreat.
A poll by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation flashed a warning for the White House, showing that 3 in 4 Americans want the Trump administration to make Obama's law work. The panel is meeting after the House's last votes of the week, so it's unclear when, if ever, the new provision would be considered on the House floor. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., a sponsor of the amendment.
The blunt conversation came after Trump attacked the Freedom Caucus multiple times on Twitter last week, blaming members who opposed the GOP leadership's health care plan for its failure in the House. The infighting among Republican lawmakers could not be resolved despite the White House mounting a serious effort.
White House officials are also facing swirling political dynamics in the House that they can not necessarily control, despite the relationships some of them have cultivated on Capitol Hill.
The plan Pence floated on Monday to the Freedom Caucus is far from final, and it would need to be drafted into a bill or and amendment before Congress could vote on it. He also does not know some of its members well since he left the House after winning Indiana's governorship in 2012.
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"I think the Tuesday Group is trying to get there, I think a good bit of the Freedom Caucus guys are trying to get there, but it just takes a couple of either group to spin this thing sideways", he said.
Ryan spoke briefly about the White House meeting during an NPR interview on Wednesday evening.
Republicans are making one final effort to move forward with their plan to reform the United States healthcare system before Congress goes on a two-week break. But, he added, "it's going to take a little bit of time". The fund is meant to subsidize coverage for patients with those serious preexisting conditions to lower premiums for healthier patients.
By most estimations, the money set aside by the new amendment does not measure up, potentially leading to a massive number of the sickest people with either incredibly high costs in the pool, massive insurer losses, or sick people simply opting to go without insurance.
It's another blow to Republicans and the Trump administration who had worked this week to revive the failed effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
There were discussions of a new provision to create a "backstop" so people with chronic illnesses in high-risk insurance pools do not see their premiums spike if major portions of Obamacare are repealed.
House Republicans sought to show they weren't headed out for spring break before turning in their homework on Thursday, making minor changes to an Obamacare repeal plan before leaving on a two week recess.
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