During a speech that was supposed to be about tax reform, Trump claimed to have the votes to pass Graham-Cassidy. Trump made it up. He doesn’t have the votes to pass Graham-Cassidy.
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Trump announced during his speech in Indiana that he has the votes to pass Graham-Cassidy.
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The problem is that Trump doesn’t have the votes:
Trump: "We have the votes on Graham-Cassidy."
They don't have the votes on Graham-Cassidy.— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) September 27, 2017
Trump on health care: "We have the votes on Graham-Cassidy."
This would be news to literally everyone in the Senate.
— Pete Schroeder (@peteschroeder) September 27, 2017
The collapse of GOP health care bill had little to do with Sen. Cochran's prostate. But that's what POTUS is suggesting again in Indy.
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) September 27, 2017
But if they HAD the votes they would have TAKEN the vote. @realDonaldTrump trying to explain health care failure with inaccurate assessment
— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) September 27, 2017
Trump is so out of his mind that he is inventing support and timetables for votes that don’t exist. Notice that Trump doesn’t say how the reconciliation language is going to be brought up again, and he seems to think that Sen. Lisa Murkowski is going to vote for the bill even though she has shown no sign of doing so.
The President Of The United States is so mentally gone that he imagines accomplishments that may never happen. Trump is making all of this up. He hasn’t talked to the Senate, and there is no plan to do what he suggested will happen.
Trump is making it up, and a president who lives in a fantasy land is unfit to hold the office.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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