DEMS/OBAMACARE/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fallout from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is far from over, but House Democratic leaders showed on Tuesday [3-26-19] that they want to focus attention on defending the Affordable Care Act after the Trump administration said that the entire health care law should be struck down. During a closed-door House Democratic caucus meeting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talked about strengthening the health care law, according to an aide in the room, and urged House Democrats to remain focused on their agenda of pushing for lower health care costs along with other policy priorities. In what has been a chaotic series of days since Mueller’s investigation wrapped, the fight to protect Obamacare on Tuesday offered House Democrats a unifying issue for a diverse caucus that has some members calling for the party to move on with the Democratic agenda and others — albeit a small faction — repeating calls for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. A large portion of Tuesday’s meeting was focused on health care, which Democrats are eager to move onto, according to four sources present in the meeting, with Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the influential House Intelligence Committee, saying that the most important thing that happened in the past 24 hours was the administration’s attack on former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.”
–Manu Raju, Phil Mattingly, Sunlen Serfaty and Clare Foran, “Democrats turn attention to defending Obamacare as Congress waits for Mueller report,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, March 26, 2019 7:27 pm