Jordain Carney

Republicans have sort of continuously struggled to come up with a unifying plan on health care.

They've been debating privately for months among themselves what their message should be right now.

There's not like a unified plan that gets both House and Senate Republicans.

You've got some centrists or moderate Republicans who want to do an extension of the subsidies with income caps or other new restrictions.

You've got more conservative Republicans who want to let them lapse.

What is sort of interesting about this subsidies debate is that to extend the subsidies, you would need to get Republicans who have never voted for Obamacare to essentially vote to continue a piece of that law, which they have made a center of their campaign.

Their opposition is like a center of their political messaging for 15 years.

So that is sort of the internal debate they've been having.

President Trump has, he said that he wants kind of broadly to send money to people, not insurance companies.

But on Capitol Hill, you had Republicans for decades.

months who have really been hoping he would very explicitly say, here is my framework or here is my plan.

And, you know, in the hopes that that would rally the disparate parts of the Republican Party around one idea.

That has not happened.