Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) (AP Photo)

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Sunday responded to President Donald Trump’s tweet last week that if he and other members of the House Freedom Caucus would “get on board” the country would have” both great health care and massive tax cuts and reform,” saying that “tweets and statement and blame don’t change the facts” - the American Health Care Act “doesn’t repeal Obamacare.”



“Jake, tweets and statements and blame don't change facts, and the facts remain the same. When you look at the document, when you look at the legislation, it doesn't repeal Obamacare. Even people who support it say it's -- have called it Obamacare-lite. Doesn't bring down premiums,” Jordan told CNN”s “State of the Union” on Sunday.





“Even the CBO said premiums were going to rise for the next three-and-a-half years, and certainly it doesn't unite Republicans, as evidenced by the fact that you got conservatives and moderates who are opposed to the legislation, and it doesn't unite the country,” he said.



“When have you seen a bill come forward where only 17 percent of the country supports it? So, let's do better than that. Let's start over. Let's get this thing done right and let's keep our promises with the American people,” Jordan added.



The process was “deeply flawed, he said. One of the things Republicans can learn from this, Jordan said, is “good process leads to good policy, which I think translates into good politics.”



“That didn't happen here, again, as evidenced by the fact no one in the country likes this bill. So, maybe instead of hiding the bill away, rolling it out four weeks ago, having hearings where there are no witnesses who actually testify, where there are no amendments allowed to be offered, no amendments accepted, maybe we need to do the process right, and maybe, if we do, we will develop a product that more than 17 percent of the country actually approves of,” he said.



“So, let's to do it that way. Why not actually have doctors come in and testify, maybe hospitals testify, or maybe just some regular American families who this bill is going to impact? Why not have that kind of process take place? And we will get to a better process, and that's the kind of thing that Justin Amash and other members of the Freedom Caucus think -- Freedom Caucus think need to happen,” he said.



Jordan responded to Dan Scavino, the president’s social media director, urging the defeat of Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) in the next primary, by saying Amash is “one of the most principled members of Congress” and that Jordan will do everything he can to help Amash, “but what concerns me more than this threat of primaries is keeping our word with the American people.”



“Speaker Ryan said this week that if you -- quote -- ‘let the perfect become the enemy of the good,’ you will push the president into working with Democrats. Does any part of Speaker Ryan's expression of concern make you worry at all that this will ultimately become a more liberal bill?” CNN’s Jake Tapper asked.



“Since when did good get defined as 17 percent approval rating?” Jordan replied.