COLORADO SPRING, Colo. (AP) The Latest on the Koch brothers’ weekend conference (all times local):
4 p.m.
Chief lieutenants in the Koch brothers’ political network are condemning the Senate Republican health care bill as insufficiently conservative.
The leader for the Koch network’s political arm, Tim Phillips, says the Senate bill ”needs to get better.” He calls the Senate’s plans for Medicaid ”a slight nip and tuck” over President Barack Obama’s health care law.
The network is a powerful outside critic as GOP leaders try to rally support for their plan among rank-and-file Republicans.
The comments Saturday come on the first day of a three-day private Koch donor retreat at a luxury resort in the Rocky Mountains.