WASHINGTON ― There is “plenty of blame to go around” for the failure of a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump’s budget director said Sunday. Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget and a former congressman from South Carolina, said on “Meet the Press” that both the hard-right House Freedom Caucus and the moderate Tuesday Group share blame for sinking the American Health Care Act. “You could blame it on the Freedom Caucus if you want to but there’s also a lot of moderates — Charlie Dent will be on your show in a little bit — who are also against the bill, and so it’s sort of the powers that be in Washington that won,” said Mulvaney, a founding member of the Freedom Caucus. Trump tweeted Sunday morning that the Freedom Caucus is to blame for the spectacular failure of his first major piece of legislation.

Source: Huffington Post March 26, 2017 16:45 UTC