How Trump Got Two Texans to ‘yes' on GOP Health Care Plan

WASHINGTON -- All he had to do was ask, it turned out.Two Texas holdouts on the GOP's plan to repeal Obamacare, conservative Reps. John Ratcliffe and Blake Farenthold, emerged from an Oval Office session on Friday promising to support a health care repeal-and-replace plan being pushed by President Donald Trump."I heard from Trump's mouth that he was 1,000 percent behind it. That's what I needed to hear," said Farenthold, a Corpus Christi Republican. "I was an undecided and ended up a yes. I promised to repeal Obamacare. It's why I ran for Congress in 2010 and this is the only way it's going to get repealed is on a bill that president Trump supports."  Continue reading...

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