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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGovernors skeptical after 'pretty atrocious' session with top Trump health officials
Vice President Mike Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma made a frantic bid at the National Governors Association meeting Friday and Saturday to win over -- or at least silence -- skeptical GOP governors.
But their efforts left major questions unanswered, Republican and Democratic governors said.
And Pence's speech Friday resulted in the vice president openly feuding with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican who didn't attend the governors' meeting.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/15/politics/trump-health-care-governors/index.html
The liars getting called out. +1
global1
(25,270 posts)get away with telling the people? These Governors know the crap that Pence, Price and McConnell tell the people and aren't stupid. They know first hand how this health care bill will hurt their states and don't buy their lies.
yardwork
(61,706 posts)spanone
(135,874 posts)yardwork
(61,706 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,190 posts)you could have 100% democratic turnout and the republicans would still win the district.
Mariana
(14,860 posts)Anyway, even if a particular state won't elect an opposition party candidate as gov, the sitting gov can still be challenged in a primary.
elleng
(131,107 posts)so should be relied on clearly to express serious concerns (and present facts.)
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Hardly surprising that these knuckleheads don't have anything to say. "Die quickly" hardly sounds like a health care plan.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)Dem. Governor Terry McAuliffe of VA is president of Governors' Association.
One could stay away from any given speech or discussion is one wanted.
I was just interested to know if Kasich had issued an official reason for not attending. It could have been a simple or personal or reason, or because Ohio Legislature was winding up its deliberations and Kasich needed to be available to veto (or not) certain measures.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)spanone
(135,874 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,190 posts)Our credit sucks.
Not only don't we have enough money to fund our teachers' pensions, but there isn't enough money to REPLACE the money TAKEN OUT of the teachers' pension fund.
NJ is so desperate for funds that it KEPT THE FEDERAL FUNDS given to build the Gateway Tunnel AFTER Gov. Christie CANCELED the project. The Federal funds were applied to strictly NJ transportation projects.
Even if we raise the taxes for the wealthy in NJ (provided they don't move out of state), there won't be enough money to fund healthcare if the ACA is repealed and/or replaced.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Fucking republicans, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT THEN!