GOP Vows Obamacare Repeal To Start 2017. Dems Dare Them.

WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans on Tuesday announced they plan to act quickly to strip away Obamacare’s funding while leaving elements of the program in place for two or three years. The move would put them in lockstep with House Republicans, and would enable President-elect Donald Trump to sign a bill effectively repealing the program on his first day in office. Democrats promptly warned that the move would destabilize insurance markets in the short term and deprive millions of people of coverage in the long term, causing a “huge calamity” for America as well as for the Republican Party. At a Capitol Hill press conference following a meeting with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stated that Obamacare repeal would be literally the first item of business when the new session begins. “When we come back January 3, we’ll be moving to the Obamacare replacement resolution,” McConnell said. “The Obamacare repeal resolution will be the first item up in the new year.” He made it clear that Republicans plan to proceed with the “repeal-and-delay” strategy that GOP leaders have been discussing publicly for the last few weeks. Under such a strategy, Republicans would eliminate the Affordable Care Act’s funding using the budget “reconciliation” process, where Democrats can’t filibuster and where Republicans can thus proceed with a narrow majority. ...
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