President Trump’s first meeting with his Cabinet on Monday came while the Congressional Budget Office released a major cost analysis of the White House’s Obamacare replacement plan.
Trump joined senior administration aides and several of his Cabinet secretaries for a discussion about “budget, homeland [security] and Obamacare,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer told the Washington Examiner after the meeting, which he said went “really well.”
Trump convened the meeting on Monday without having a full Cabinet confirmed. He lamented the absence of his Director of National Intelligence, Trade representative and Labor and Agriculture secretaries at the beginning of the sit-down.
“We have four empty seats which is a terrible thing,” the president said, adding that Americans are suffering from Democrats’ “partisan obstruction.”
The meeting came just as the CBO released its much-anticipated projections on the economic impacts of the American Health Care Act, the first phase of which House Republicans released last week.
Spicer declined to comment on the projections, noting that he was in the Cabinet meeting when they were released.
