Sean Spicer

No 'active Planning' On New Health Bill Strategy

... at House passage last week. The New York Times reported Tuesday that Republicans, pressured by conservative groups, have initiated discussions once again to undo former President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare legislation, the repeal of which has been a plank in Republican platforms across the country for more than seven years. Legislation to repeal and replace the law, also known as Obamacare, failed to make it to a full vote in the House last week, undone by a lack of support from both the arch-conservative and moderate wings of the GOP. Story Continued Below. Asked at his Tuesday press briefing if the White House had engaged in a new round of talks to repeal Obamacare, Spicer said conversations had begun but were still in their formative stages. “Staff has met with individuals and listened to them,” he said. “Have we had some discussions and listened to ideas? Yes. Are we actively planning an immediate strategy? Not at this time… So there has been a discussion and I believe there will be several more.”. By Rachael Bade and Kyle Cheney. ...

Trump Knew Gop Health Care Plan Was 'bad' Deal

... plan! Call your Rep & let them know you're behind #AHCA”. Days before the bill died, Spicer told White House reporters Trump was a “closer” who was about to seal the deal with reluctant Republicans. But even with the GOP controlling Congress, the bill failed to get enough support to even warrant a vote. Ryan said last week that Americans would be living with Obamacare “for the foreseeable future.”. #Black Women At Work goes viral after O'Reilly, Spicer racism. Trump offered no immediate plans to continue his health care battle, and instead said he would simply shift his focus to tax reform. He told a room of senators Tuesday night he expected his next health care deal to be “a very easy one” that will “happen very quickly.”. House Speaker Paul Ryan after the GOP bill failed last Friday. (Win Mc Namee/Getty Images). Democrats, who uniformly rejected the bill, have told Trump they would be willing to work ...

Sean Spicer To Reporter April Ryan

... I saw was just massaging except that I need anything. You know he isn't isn't equal opportunity I had does so and is dismissive but Jon Karl he's does that he's just submissive I had let me get at what. He is to do is do his job stop trying to figure out the way around as the legitimate question wise. What's happening with this Russians stopped their question is cancer needs to be as yet no. Put fat Burnett yeah diet yeah say that what he said. Was it's all signed up already so we're asking an eye out a couple of job on but fortunately I hit. I complete lie I don't care and he only was investigating I haven't heard anything but can't attack stacked his job as if not his job is to defend Donald Trump right now and not to terrible position to be in the dot com and Donald's is Putin's puppet it's like good what'd beauty shop one. Gotta love how my head high. Cannot be thin skinned and to toughen up like you're saying if somebody asked a question like yes they should turn ...

Sean Spicer, Joe Walsh And Bill O’reilly

... doesn’t have the range for his position, felt comfortable scolding Ryan, not merely because she is a woman challenging the clown car that is the Trump administration, but because she is a black woman. O’Reilly, who is the most equal-opportunity misogynist among the lot of them, felt comfortable attacking Waters’ hair, not simply because she is a woman, but because she is a black woman. Walsh, who would fade into obscurity if not for his conscientious and impenetrable stupidity, felt comfortable patronizing Rye, not solely because she is a woman, but because she is a black woman. The conjoined oppressions of race and gender tells us this—it has always told us this. It is not only the fact that Ryan is in the room that disturbs Spicer; it is that she’s at the front of the room and not silently and gratefully sitting in the back taking notes and regurgitating the lies that this administration spews. The same can be said in varying degrees of Waters and Rye, and it is what black women, who are eminently smarter than the white men who consider themselves to be our equals, deal with on a daily basis. The assumption that we do not belong, ...

Sean Spicer’s Kiss Of Death

... been the unfilled positions across the federal government — a number of vacancies the conservative National Review declared on Tuesday was “astonishing” and “another glaring sign that the young administration is ill-prepared for the duties of governing.”. Of 553 key positions identified by the non-partisan Partnership for Public Service, Trump has named only 61 people, according to the National Review. Spicer, though, had a different take. “This has been a very methodical process that has seen from top to bottom through, and I think we're doing a phenomenal job of staffing the government,” he said at the Feb. 22 press briefing. POLITICO Playbook. Get the latest news and scoops first, every morning — in your inbox. Sign Up. By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. U. S.-MEXICO RELATIONS. The Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto cancelled his first planned visit to meet with Trump and Mexican officials continue to insist the nation will not pay for Trump’s proposed border wall. But Spicer had a ...

Press Briefing By Press Secretary Sean Spicer, 3/27/2017, #29

... Over the weekend, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer defended his decision to mount a filibuster against the President’s unquestionably qualified nominee.  If Senator Schumer gets his way, this would be the first successful filibuster against a Supreme Court nominee in American history.  He argued, quite misleadingly, that the Senate has “required” a 60-vote threshold of “every” Supreme Court nominee.  That’s simply not true. And as I’ve said before, only three Supreme Court Justices have faced a filibuster in the last half of the century.  Senator Schumer cited four justices confirmed under President Bush and Obama, but in fact, among those four, only one faced an attempted filibuster - that was Justice Samuel Alito.  And it was President Obama who, then as a senator, voted to filibuster Justice Alito, and later ...

White House Says Trump Will 'entertain' Health-care Ideas, Defends Nunes' Actions In Russia Probe

... of the House Intelligence Committee, as he faces criticism from his Democratic colleagues for his handling of the panel's probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Nunes admitted to meeting with a source on the White House grounds before claiming that he had reports that showed Trump transition team members had information "incidentally" collected by U. S. intelligence agencies. Spicer said he did not yet have information about who let Nunes onto the White House grounds, alleging that reporters have focused too much on why Nunes was there and not enough on the contents of what he said. It is "up to the House" to determine whether the California Republican will stay on the investigation amid some Democrats' calls for him to recuse himself, Spicer said. He added that he did not know the source of Nunes' claim. Here are other topics Spicer addressed. Tax ...

Sean Spicer On Politico Reporter

... on how White House staffers failed background checks by the FBI and had to be escorted from the premises. Asked about Spicer’s ad feminam blast, Politico spokesman Brad Dayspring issued this comment: “Tara is an excellent reporter whose tenacity made her a stand out in Europe. After her incredibly successful Brexit reporting, Tara returned to Washington where she has delivered top-notch reporting on the White House beat, most recently breaking the story that Dina Powell would be President Trump’s Deputy National Security Adviser.”. Tracking Spicer’s broadsides against Politico may require deployment of an Erik Wemple Contractor Blog. As we reported earlier this year , Spicer & Co., with the able assistance of the Washington Examiner, perpetrated a gutter-level slime job against Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt, who at the time was reporting a critical story about the press secretary’s ...

Sean Spicer Just Asked April Ryan How She Is Doing Today And It Was Extremely Awkward

... prosecutors say, Claiborne was wired $2,500 by a Chinese intelligence officer, and they asked in return for an "internal evaluation" made by the U. S. government at an economic conference with the Chinese government. Claiborne has denied the allegations, and pled not guilty on Wednesday. Should she be found guilty of all charges, she could face up to 25 years in prison. Catherine Garcia. Sandy Huffaker/AFP/Getty Images. Employees at the Department of Energy's Office of International Climate and Clean Energy might soon start reporting to the Office of [Redacted]. This week, an office supervisor told staffers not to use the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction," or "Paris Agreement" in memos and other written communication, people with knowledge of the matter told Politico Wednesday. During a meeting on Tuesday, the same day President Trump signed an executive order that reversed much of former President ...

Msnbc Guest Accuses Sean Spicer Of Racism Based On False Quote

... was racist, and I think it was sexist," Johnson said. "We also have to remember that this is the same Sean Spicer who was caught on camera when he was being annoyed by a local woman at a local mall and said, ‘You're lucky that you still get to be in this country,' and he said this to a Latina woman," Johnson continued. "So it's not like this is completely bizarre to think this is the case.". Johnson, who has equated  Russia's interference in the 2016 election to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was alluding to an incident earlier this month when Spicer was approached and berated at an Apple store by a liberal activist. But Spicer never said what Johnson accused him of saying. In a Medium post  after the fact, the activist in question, Shree Chauhan, did accuse Spicer of saying something similar. "His words were clear: ‘Such a great country that allows you to be here,'" she wrote. "That is racism and it is an implied threat.". But video of the incident reveals she took Spicer out of ...

Sean Spicer Deflects Reporter’s Questions By Scolding Her Body Language

... Donald Trump asked Ryan, who is black, if any members of the Congressional Black Caucus were her friends. Former reality-show villain Omarosa Manigualt, who is now a White House communications aide, then allegedly threatened to blacklist Ryan and warned her the White House was keeping a dossier on her. (Manigualt told the New Yorker the story was “ Fake news.”). If you want to know why @April DRyan just tweeted “Lawd!” — this is why. Watch the whole thing. __link__/q If Xzn VKL 8. — Bradd Jaffy (@Bradd Jaffy) March 28, 2017. Tuesday’s dust-up occurred when Ryan asked Spicer about the recent barrage of negative stories concerning the administration. “You’ve got Russia, you’ve got wiretapping — ” she was saying when Spicer interrupted her. “No, we don’t have that… you’ve got Russia,” Spicer said. “If the president puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that’s a Russian connection…. I appreciate your agenda here. At some point report the facts.”. Those facts, ...