Brat, who toppled House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a 2014 primary, is one of 21 House Republicans about to get some air cover from a conservative outside group aligned with Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and his leadership team. President Trump’s top advisers held a three-hour meeting about health care at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday, per the AP, their third lengthy discussion on the topic in four days. That’s why we need to move forward with a new plan that Republicans are putting forward. House Republicans exited a health-care meeting late last week with some new details on the options that their leaders are considering to replace the law. "The prospect that President Trump will degrade or destroy American democracy is the most important question of the new political era.

Source: Washington Post February 22, 2017 15:23 UTC