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Analysis | Trump and House conservatives say a new health-care deal is possible. We've been down this road before.

The Washington Post: Trump administration officials and arch conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus have gotten off to a rocky start, driven at least in part by their mutual tendency to hear what they want to hear from the other side.

Two weeks ago, as talks built to a dramatic failure of a Republican proposal to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, conservative lawmakers praised their discussions with President Trump’s top advisers. After each White House visit, these Republicans returned to the Capitol proclaiming that, deep down, the president was on their side in opposing key portions of a draft that had been assembled by House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.).

“I the administration actually wants a free-market solution to this,” Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) said on the evening of March 22, as his Freedom Caucus compatriots continued their push for “a conservative solution” to Ryan’s original proposal. “We’re on the same side as the administration.”

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