{"id":327326,"date":"2017-09-23T02:36:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T01:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rand-paul-hits-back-at-trump-over-healthcare-criticism\/"},"modified":"2017-09-23T02:36:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T01:36:52","slug":"rand-paul-hits-back-at-trump-over-healthcare-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rand-paul-hits-back-at-trump-over-healthcare-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Hits Back At Trump Over Healthcare Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI won\u2019t be bribed or bullied\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>Sept 22, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>GOP Senator Rand Paul has said he will not budge his position on the latest healthcare bill being touted to replace Obamacare, despite the President publicly calling him out on social media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul took to Twitter himself Friday, announcing that he \u201cwon\u2019t be bribed or bullied\u201d over the bill introduced by Sens.\u00a0<span data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Lindsey Graham<\/span>\u00a0(R-S.C.) and\u00a0<span data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Bill Cassidy<\/span>\u2018s (R-La.) which Paul says still doesn\u2019t do enough to repeal Obamacare.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I won&#8217;t vote for Obamacare Lite that keeps 90% of the taxes &amp; spending just so some people can claim credit for something that didn&#8217;t happen<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/911193005578752000\">September 22, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Calling a bill that KEEPS most of Obamacare &#8220;repeal&#8221; doesn&#8217;t make it true. That&#8217;s what the swamp does. I won&#8217;t be bribed or bullied.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/911196927626235904\">September 22, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No one is more opposed to Obamacare than I am, and I&#8217;ve voted multiple times for repeal.  The current bill isn&#8217;t repeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/911192779908370433\">September 22, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul responded after Trump called him out on Wednesday and Thursday, warning that Paul would forever be known as \u2018the Republican who saved ObamaCare\u2019 if he did not vote for the new bill.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rand Paul, or whoever votes against Hcare Bill, will forever (future political campaigns) be known as &#8220;the Republican who saved ObamaCare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/911173124976193536\">September 22, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump also described Paul as \u2018a negative force\u2019 when it comes to healthcare legislation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rand Paul is a friend of mine but he is such a negative force when it comes to fixing healthcare. Graham-Cassidy Bill is GREAT! Ends Ocare!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/910476107287269376\">September 20, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul outlined his position on the bill clearly, telling Fox News in an interview Wednesday that \u201cthis bill actually keeps the Obamacare spending and just&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/rand-paul-hits-back-at-trump-over-healthcare-criticism.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI won\u2019t be bribed or bullied\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comSept 22, 2017 GOP Senator Rand Paul has said he will not budge his position on the latest healthcare bill being touted to replace Obamacare, despite the President publicly calling him out on social media. Paul took to Twitter himself Friday, announcing that he \u201cwon\u2019t be bribed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}