REPORT: Administration Source Says White House Will ‘Bribe’ Senators By Agreeing to Funds to Fight Opioid Crisis

‘I Really Think They’ll Bribe Off the Moderates With Opioid Money’ –Trump Administration Source

After Republican Senators met on health care Wednesday, they were no more ready to agree on a deal.

“No one came out of yesterday’s Senate GOP meeting sounding hopeful,” Axios reports Thursday morning.

This, despite President Donald Trump’s remarks Tuesday and Wednesday suggesting Republican Senators would soon be ready to agree on a deal. Currently, at least nine Republicans have stated they are opposed to the current bill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to complete a revised bill by Friday.

Axios cites the concerns of four Republican Senators – Susan Collins, Shelley Moore Capito, Rob Portman, and Rand Paul – especially surrounding Medicaid.

But this portion of the Axios report is simply stunning:

Most of the optimism is coming from the White House. Here’s how an administration source summed up the mood to [Axios reporter] Jonathan Swan last night: “I think we’re going to pass this. I really think they’ll bribe off the moderates with Opioid money and then actually move policy to shore up Mike Lee and Ted Cruz.”

Let’s look at that again: “I really think they’ll bribe off the moderates.”

That is how the White House, someone in the Trump administration, is talking about health care, about their fellow Republicans, and about the tens of thousands of people who die each year as a result of the opioid crisis.

CNBC reports Wednesday that a “report found that 78 people died per day in 2014 because of opioid addiction and abuse, and that number has by all indications grown since then.“

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