President Donald Trump addressed reporters Tuesday before a closed door meeting at which he was expected to pressure Republican members of Congress in an attempt to pass through his ‘big, beautiful bill.”
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“Remember, we had a majority of one for six months,” Trump said, “and that was a very frightening thing because the Democrats have really hurt our country, and we are going to go into this very much unified. Remember what I said, the auto pen, this government was illegally run for four years.”
Anchor Kate Bolduan summed up the almost 10-minute remarks by saying, “All right. So we've been listening to the president, his position, his messaging, going in. Kind of an exercise in manifestation, trying to say that the party is very unified.”
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“Manu, you heard you were listening in. You heard the president as he's walking in. What is he heading into? He says the party's very unified," Bolduan said to correspondent Manu Raju, who was in Congress.
“Yeah. It's actually not very unified,” Raju said. “There's actually significant division, particularly between the more moderate members and the more conservative members, over some of the issues that Donald Trump just laid out there. One of which is the issue of Medicaid.”
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