Rep. Justin Amash
Rep. Justin Amash
President Donald Trump, not a happy guy in wake of his health care bill defeat, vowed Thursday to go after Republicans who opposed him on the failed Republican health care bill.
That's likely to include Michigan Congressman Justin Amash.
Todd Spangler of the Detroit Free Press reports:
On Thursday morning, Trump, apparently still smarting from being forced last week to drop a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act in the face of conservative intransigence, went on Twitter to say his supporters "must fight" members of the so-called Freedom Caucus that opposed the bill, presumably drumming up opposition for them in next year's elections if they "don't get on the team & fast."
That would include Amash, a Republican from Cascade Township, who was clear in his refusal to back House Speaker Paul Ryan's plan to replace the 2010 Democratic-led health care reform law throughout recent weeks, saying its system of continuing subsidies and insurance requirements effectively made it "Obamacare 2.0."
Amash — a fourth-term congressman who has never been a favorite of GOP leadership — even went further last week after Ryan was forced to abandon a vote he and Trump had predicted they would win, tweeting that the U.S. House, "is supposed to be a deliberative body where outcomes are discovered, not dictated."
