Dent, who refused to endorse Trump last year, has emerged as a visible critic of his own party's plans and conduct in the early months of the new administration. Trump, according to the New York Times, recently told Dent the congressman "is destroying the Republican Party" as the centrist leader stood against the GOP plan to repeal Obamacare. Dent later appeared on Meet the Press to defend moderates' views and held a media availability with one-time Trump rival John Kasich, the moderate Ohio governor, to discuss their own vision for health-care reform.