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Ex-Rep. Will Hurd said Trump was unhappy after he revealed his stance on the Obamacare repeal bill.
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In the book “American Reboot,” Hurd pointed to $800 billion in Medicaid cuts as a sticking point.
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Hurd wrote that while he opposed the GOP bill, he also didn’t endorse the Affordable Care Act.
Former Republican Rep. Will Hurd in a newly-released book said that then-President Donald Trump “exploded” at him in 2017 after he expressed his opposition to the Affordable Care Act repeal legislation put forward by the party.
Hurd — a former CIA officer who represented Texas’ vast 23rd congressional district from 2015 to 2021 — recounted that in his first one-on-one phone conversation with Trump, the then-president was seeking to rally support for the legislation.
Before his talk with Trump, Hurd spoke with then-Vice President Mike Pence about his concerns with the bill, pointing to the Republican-drafted American Health Care Act’s $800 billion in Medicaid cuts, which he said would hurt many constituents in his district.
Pence was sympathetic to Hurd’s position and told him that he was making “the right decision” for his district, despite the Trump administration’s push to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which the former congressman detailed in “American Reboot: An Idealist’s Guide to Getting Big Things Done.”
However, Trump — who made the repeal and replacement of Obamacare a centerpiece of his 2016 presidential campaign — was not as understanding as Pence in recognizing the dynamics of his district, according to Hurd.
In his book, the former congressman stated that the cuts to Medicaid — the public health insurance program largely for low-income people — were a sticking point in his assessment of the legislation.
“The Medicaid cuts were a major problem for me,” he wrote. “In my largely rural district, many people worked low-wage jobs and qualified and benefited from the program. About one in every fifteen people…
Source : yahoo
