Republican lawmakers are meeting this week in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Loews Hotel near City Hall.
Protesters have been targeting the hotel since the Republican lawmakers came to town.
Welcome to Philadelphia @realDonaldTrump #lgbtq #queerrager protest outside the Loews Hotel #philly video sent to me by a friend pic.twitter.com/x0IczPgh4B
— MK (@mytweetjawn) January 26, 2017
But it gets worse.
Their room is bugged. Someone was taping the GOP lawmakers’ discussions and sent copies to the liberal media.
The Washington Post reported:
Republican lawmakers aired sharp concerns about their party’s quick push to repeal the Affordable Care Act inside a closed-door meeting Thursday, according to a recording of the session obtained by The Washington Post.
The recording reveals a GOP that appears to be filled with doubts about how to make good on a long-standing promise to get rid of Obamacare without explicit guidance from President Trump or his administration.
Senators and House members expressed a range of concerns about the task ahead: how to prepare a replacement plan that can be ready to launch at the time of repeal; how to avoid deep damage to the health insurance market; how to keep premiums affordable for middle-class families; even how to avoid the political consequences of defunding Planned Parenthood, the women’s health-care organization, as many Republicans hope to do with the repeal of the ACA.
“We’d better be sure that we’re prepared to live with the market we’ve created” with repeal, said Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.). “That’s going to be called Trumpcare. Republicans will own that lock, stock and barrel, and we’ll be judged in the election less than two years away.”
Recordings of closed sessions at the Republican policy retreat in Philadelphia this week were sent late Thursday to The Washington Post and several other news outlets from an anonymous email address. The remarks of all lawmakers quoted in this story were confirmed by their offices or by the lawmakers themselves.