Trump urges future gov't shutdown, easier passage of laws

If the GOP bill became law, congressional analysts estimate that 24 million more Americans would be uninsured by 2026, including 14 million by next year.

The White House has said Trump would sign the measure, which is the first major legislation to pass in Trump's presidency.

But the skeptical Republican lawmakers got behind the bill after meeting with Trump to float a compromise proposal expected to face unanimous Democratic opposition.

Republicans were scrambling yesterday to put together enough votes to pass Obamacare replacement legislation.

Trump's embrace of such a disruptive event came days after he accused Senate Democrats of seeking that same outcome and obstructing majority Republicans during budget negotiations. "They forgot. In their notes, they forgot to tell you that".

House Republican leaders are hopeful for a vote on the health care plan ahead of a weeklong recess next week.

"We thought we had the upper hand because a government shutdown would be on their shoulders, and we made that clear", Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in an interview.

The latest iteration of the GOP bill would let states escape a current requirement that insurers charge healthy and seriously ill customers the same rates. Voters in conservative Rep. Doug LaMalfa's sprawling, rural Northern California district favored Republican Trump over Clinton last November by 20 percentage points.

President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that the USA government "needs a good shutdown" in September to fix a "mess" in the Senate, signaling his displeasure with a temporary spending bill that Republican congressional leaders - and Trump himself - are praising as a major accomplishment. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Trump's tweet saying "a good "shutdown" could again be in the offing clearly hit a nerve among senators already nervous about the new administration's track record on Capitol Hill.

Senators from both Republican and Democratic parties voted in favor of the bill, which passed 79 to 18 with only Republicans opposing the measure, citing minimal changes to spending levels. They kept money flowing to sanctuary cities and Planned Parenthood, they earned budget hikes for the National Endowment for the Arts and a sizable list of other domestic programs, and they secured a bailout for Puerto Rico's Medicaid program. He says it's "a really good down payment" on rebuilding the military and "the biggest increase in border security in a decade".

For weeks, House leaders have lacked the votes for their drive to repeal much of President Barack Obama's health care law, especially among moderate Republicans.

To counter that narrative, the White House dispatched Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, for the daily press briefing on Tuesday for an at-times tense back and forth with reporters over the budget deal. "So we have more money now for the border than we've gotten in 10 years".

Upton said his proposed amendment would provide $8 billion over five years to help people with pre-existing medical conditions pay premiums.

The White House did win numerous concessions during the recent negotiations with Congress over the stopgap spending bill.

The White House often says a controversial Trump tweet "speaks for itself" but the comments invite further questions - including why the president believes a government shutdown would be beneficial at a time when Republicans control the White House and both chambers in Congress.

He correctly noted that the pending measure would be a victory for Republicans because the administration succeeded in breaking the link - forged over several Obama-era spending deals - that required that any increases in military spending be matched by an equal, dollar-for-dollar increase for nondefense programs.