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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Obamacare repeal might have just died tonight"
Something big is happening in the Senate right now: The Republican plan, affirmed again today by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is facing dire peril from Republican defections. Republicans need a House majority, 50 Senate votes, and soon-to-be President Trump to pass repeal and delay.
If Republicans lose three Senate votes, that drops them to 49, and repeal and delay cannot pass.
At least three Republican senators (in addition to all the Democrats) now oppose repeal and delay
Rand Paul, of all people, has demanded that Congress repeal Obamacare at the same time it passes a plan to replace it. Paul has announced that he spoke with Trump and secured his agreement on this. Trump has not said so himself, confining his comments to date to a vague assurance, Thats all gonna work out.
Trump, of course, tends to change his mind frequently and agree with whomever he spoke with last.
But other Republicans senators are taking the initiative. Fellow Republican Lamar Alexander says the same thing as Paul: We have to take each part of it and consider what it would take to create a new and better alternative and then begin to create that alternative and once its available to the American people, then we can finally repeal Obamacare. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas said on MSNBC, It would not be the right path for us to repeal Obamacare without laying out a path forward. And Senator Bob Corker is walking right up to the edge of the same position, asking Trump to tweet out confirmation of what Paul claims he promised. If it is his view, it would be really good if he would consider tweeting it out very clearly. Theres more and more concerns about not doing it simultaneously, Corker says.
Even more ominously for the Republican leadership, four other Republicans have joined Corker to sponsor a bill delaying the bill that would repeal Obamacare for a month:
Five GOP senators offer an amendment to extend the Obamacare repeal reconciliation deadline by more than a MONTH. pic.twitter.com/8MPlAy50mR
Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) January 9, 2017
If Republicans lose three Senate votes, that drops them to 49, and repeal and delay cannot pass.
At least three Republican senators (in addition to all the Democrats) now oppose repeal and delay
Rand Paul, of all people, has demanded that Congress repeal Obamacare at the same time it passes a plan to replace it. Paul has announced that he spoke with Trump and secured his agreement on this. Trump has not said so himself, confining his comments to date to a vague assurance, Thats all gonna work out.
Trump, of course, tends to change his mind frequently and agree with whomever he spoke with last.
But other Republicans senators are taking the initiative. Fellow Republican Lamar Alexander says the same thing as Paul: We have to take each part of it and consider what it would take to create a new and better alternative and then begin to create that alternative and once its available to the American people, then we can finally repeal Obamacare. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas said on MSNBC, It would not be the right path for us to repeal Obamacare without laying out a path forward. And Senator Bob Corker is walking right up to the edge of the same position, asking Trump to tweet out confirmation of what Paul claims he promised. If it is his view, it would be really good if he would consider tweeting it out very clearly. Theres more and more concerns about not doing it simultaneously, Corker says.
Even more ominously for the Republican leadership, four other Republicans have joined Corker to sponsor a bill delaying the bill that would repeal Obamacare for a month:
Five GOP senators offer an amendment to extend the Obamacare repeal reconciliation deadline by more than a MONTH. pic.twitter.com/8MPlAy50mR
Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) January 9, 2017
More:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/obamacare-repeal-might-have-just-died-tonight.html
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/obamacare-repeal-might-have-just-died-tonight.html
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"Obamacare repeal might have just died tonight" (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Jan 2017
OP
I'd be shocked at a Democrat who wanted to lose immediately any future help from the DNC.
WinkyDink
Jan 2017
#4
Rand knows his constituents like Obamacare (tho they may not make the 'Kynection')
Gidney N Cloyd
Jan 2017
#2
dawg
(10,621 posts)1. We'll have at least one Judas on our side.
I'd be shocked if we didn't.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)4. I'd be shocked at a Democrat who wanted to lose immediately any future help from the DNC.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,817 posts)2. Rand knows his constituents like Obamacare (tho they may not make the 'Kynection')
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)3. Ha! As I posted in another thread, the R's plan is deliberately NO PLAN.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)5. Some of the Rs don't want no plan, they want something in place first.
Thank god.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)6. Actions speak louder than lying Republicans, pardon the redundancy.