Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that Trump has considered calling a special session of Congress on the day of his inauguration to repeal and replace Obamacare.
“He also has talked about convening a special session on January 20 after he is sworn in as President of the United States to do this very thing, to repeal and replace Obamacare,” she said on “Fox News Sunday.” “It would be a pretty remarkable move.”
It’s unclear exactly how Trump and the Republican Congress will address Obamacare when Trump takes office.
Though Trump railed against Obamacare on the campaign trail, since his election, he has suggested he will keep at least some aspects of the Affordable Care Act. He told the Wall Street Journal that he would keep provisions that allow children to stay on their parents’ health care plans until age 26 and that ban insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. And he suggested he may not push for a full repeal.
“Either Obamacare will be amended, or repealed and replaced,” he told the Wall Street Journal.
When asked if Trump would amend the Affordable Care Act or completely replace it, Conway told “Fox News Sunday” that “we don’t know,” noting that Trump will have to work with Congress.
Hot air.
But not the parts insurance companies make money on. Those can stay.
Donnie may be a teetotaler, but the rest of Washington isn’t. They’ll all be attending parties. I can imagine just how happy they’ll be to hear that Trump wants a special session, so stop the hookers and blow.
Congress: “Um we just checked our schedules and… well we don’t work on Fridays.”
Trump: “I said we would repeal and replace Day One, now do it!”
Congress: “We definitely can’ vote to repeal it, but for the other part…”
(Democrats in Congress off to the side laughing their a$$es off)
We will repeal it on his first day in office just so the GOP and FOX News and Breitbart can get their rocks off.
What are you gonna replace it with?
We don’t know. We haven’t thought that through over the past 6.5 years, just the Repeal part.