May 20 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump visited Capitol Hill Tuesday to move those House Republicans who have so far chosen not to approve his legislative agenda bill to cease their opposition and move the legislation forward.
Trump was blunt in his dealings with conservative GOP representatives who want the bill to cut deeper into Medicaid.
He further pushed that message as he spoke to reporters outside the meeting and said of Medicaid that the bill would only cut "waste, fraud and abuse."
The other GOP House faction he came to beseech are those who hail from mostly blue states and seek a higher cap on the state and local tax, or SALT, deduction. Trump alleged that it's the governors of blue states like New York, Illinois and California, who would benefit if they were to change the bill to up the SALT cap, "and those governors are the ones who blew it because they weren't able to get it."
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