Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reiterated to reporters on Monday that if Republicans win the Senate, they will not spend all of their time and energy trying desperately to repeal Obamacare.
He said that the GOP “would certainly be voting on things like repealing the medical device tax, restoring the 40-hour work week, discontinuing the individual mandate,” but that a full repeal is unlikely, according to Buzzfeed.
“With the president in the position that he’s in, I can’t imagine he would sign a full repeal, but there’s various parts of it that are very unpopular and we will be voting on them,” McConnell said.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who would certainly have an influence if the GOP wins the majority, told the Washington Post recently that if his party takes the Senate, they should “pursue every means possible to repeal Obamacare.”
But McConnell has already said that’s unlikely, and his fellow Kentucky Senator Rand Paul echoed that sentiment during a Monday campaign event.
“It’s gonna have to be things we can agree to,” Paul said when asked about Cruz’s comments on a repeal, according to Buzzfeed. “I’m not saying we don’t have a vote on repealing Obamacare; we should have a vote. I’m not sure how far that goes but we should have a vote on it. But I also want to pass some stuff and one of the things I think would help the country would be to bring all that American profit home and create jobs.”
