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Trump to Scalise, RSC Members: 'I am 100% Behind This'

March 17, 2017

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) met with President Trump and Vice President Pence along with several members of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) to discuss their unified support for the bill, with President Trump remarking, "I want everyone to know I am 100% behind this...all of these noes, or potential noes, are now yeses...Obamacare is dead."

Following the meeting, Scalise remarked, "One of the things that President Trump said today, he asked every member, with these changes, to vote for the bill, and President Trump himself committed that he is all in, 100% in for this bill. And of all of these members were in various places--some were for, some undecided, some even against this bill initially--who all with these changes that President Trump has brought to us are now are now a yes on this bill."

RSC Chair Mark Walker also fully endorsed the bill, noting, "We're a yes, we're excited to be there."


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Click here or on the image above to see Scalise's remarks following his meeting with President Trump.

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Click here or on the image above to watch President Trump's remarks at his meeting with Scalise and other RSC members.

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Click here or on the image above to watch RSC Chair Mark Walker's endorsement of the bill.

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Issues:Health Care