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Trump Takes Up Health Care with Rand Paul, On Golf Course

CATHERINE LUCEY among Republicans and
Associated Press little interest in cooperation
WASHINGTON (AP) — from Democrats. Since the
President Donald Trump bill went down, Trump has
brought Sen. Rand Paul repeatedly lashed out at
to his Virginia golf course members of the conserva-
on Sunday to talk health tive House Freedom Cau-
policy with the outspoken cus who contributed to the
critic of the failed plan to defeat.
repeal and replace so- On CNN’s “State of the
called Obamacare. Union” on Sunday, a mem-
The outing to Trump Nation- ber of the caucus, Rep. Jim
al Golf Club came hours Jordan, R-Ohio, responded
after Trump tweeted that to those attacks. He said
talks on replacing the law “tweets and statements
have been going on and and blame don’t change
“will continue until such facts. And the facts remain
time as a deal is hopefully the same. Trump told the
struck.” Financial Times that mem-
He added that anyone bers of the caucus were
who thinks the effort is “friends of mine.” But he
dead “does not know the added: “if we don’t get
love and strength in R Par- what we want, we will
ty!” Trump golfed and dis- make a deal with the Dem-
cussed policy with Paul and ocrats and we will have in
budget director Mick Mul- my opinion not as good a
vaney, said White House form of health care, but we
spokeswoman Stephanie are going to have a very
Grisham. good form of health care
Paul came out strongly Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington and it will be a bipartisan
against the House GOP upon arrival from a round of golf with President Donald Trump, Sunday, April 2, 2017, in Washington. form of health care.”
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
legislation, and its collapse The Sunday golf outing was
humiliated Trump in the an agreement on replac- published online Sunday. my idea.” And he said that not unusual for Trump, who
early days of his adminis- ing Obamacare,” said the Of the recent defeat, “one way or the other, I has visited his golf courses in
tration. After their golf ex- Kentucky senator, who fell Trump said: “I don’t like to promised the people great Virginia and Florida repeat-
cursion, Paul struck a posi- to Trump in the 2016 Repub- lose. But that wasn’t a de- health care. We are going edly since taking office.
tive tone, calling it a “great lican presidential primary. finitive day. They are nego- to have great health care Sometimes these rounds in-
day” with the president. Trump talked about his ef- tiating as we speak.” in this country.” corporate official business,
“I continue to be very op- forts to move forward on Trump said the bill was It is not clear how a new like when he played with
timistic that we are get- health care in an interview pulled because “I didn’t health care bill will come Japanese Prime Minister
ting closer and closer to with the Financial Times want to take a vote. It was together, with deep divides Shinzo Abe in Florida.q