INTERVIEW — BYRON YORK — Chief political correspondent, Washington Examiner

• Byron York: Congress leads Trump down wrong path: “New to Washington and with no experience in public office, Trump has become a prisoner to the House Republican leadership — or more precisely, to the complicated procedural requirements of the House and Senate, and the judgment of the GOP leadership that must operate within those boundaries. All across the capital, politicos are arguing about what House Republicans should do next in the Obamacare fight. Can they prevail in the Budget Committee? How much damage has the CBO report done? Can the Freedom Caucus be brought aboard? What about the moderates? And reconciliation? The three-step process? It has become mind-numbingly complicated. And perhaps the answer to all those questions is one simple sentence: Republicans are working on the wrong thing. And the Republican president is allowing himself to be distracted from delivering early and often on his core campaign promise of improving the economy and bringing jobs to millions of Americans.”
• Lord: Republicans Should ‘Just Step Back’ And Let Obamacare ‘Crash’ (Daily Caller) — Jeffrey Lord suggested on CNN Wednesday morning that the GOP’s best move might be to let Obamacare fail. Prior to Lord’s comments, Republican strategist Ana Navarro first noted that her “personal friend” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is only “putting her constituents first” by promising a “no” vote on the healthcare proposal proposed by GOP leadership. “Well, you know, listening to Ana here, I’m beginning to think that that might be the thing to do,” Lord responded. “I mean Obamacare is failing. It is in fact imploding. Insurance companies are backing out.” “I’m beginning to think with all of these problems here with the Ryan plan etc, the best thing is to just step back and let it crash.”