When someone bitches about Democrats, point out every vote to pass the ACA was from a Democrat, & not one Democrat committed to repealing it
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 28, 2017
There's one sentence every American needs to know:
Trumpcare eliminates pre-existing condition protections.
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) April 27, 2017
NYMag, at of 3:30am today:
… [F]ollowing a 90-minute meeting in House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office on Thursday night, Republicans announced that they still can’t find a way to pass the health care overhaul they’ve been promising for seven years. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said there would be no vote on Friday, and denied that GOP leaders had ever wanted to vote this week.
“We’re still educating members,” McCarthy said. “We’ve been making great progress. As soon as we have the votes, we’ll vote on it.”
The speaker can only afford 22 GOP defections, and according to Politico, he still doesn’t have the votes: “At least 15 House Republicans remain solidly opposed to the bill, with another 20 leaning no or still undecided, according to GOP lawmakers and aides.”
The lack of progress on the health care bill does have a silver lining for the GOP. Democrats had threatened to force a shutdown if Republicans tried to hold a health care vote this week, but now it looks like Congress will pass a weeklong spending bill before the midnight Friday deadline, giving themselves time to negotiate a deal to keep the government funded through September.
Though, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi suggested that even if Republicans had voted on the wildly unpopular health care legislation, the outcome wouldn’t have be pretty.
“If they vote on it, the minute they cast that vote, they put doo-doo on their shoe,” she said.
They are good at winning because they are good at cheating but they can't find their ass with a flashlight once they've made it.
— laura olin (@lauraolin) April 28, 2017
Note: Going back to the trough on Trumpcare means Dems can v plausibly argue in 2018 that Trump/GOP won't ever stop coming after yr care.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 27, 2017
Yesterday Rep Tom MacArthur became TrumpCare 2.0 author. Today I’m exploring run against him Congress NJ03. Join me https://t.co/UO5MBcFa1D pic.twitter.com/xvfJPz1H5b
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) April 27, 2017
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