Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday said it will take Republicans “a little bit longer” to get their Obamacare repeal bill through the Senate, after the vote was delayed until after the July 4 recess.
McConnell told reporters that Republican senators had a productive meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence Tuesday afternoon.
“We made good progress,” he told reporters. “I think the meeting was very helpful. The one thing I would say is that I think everybody around the table is interested in getting to yes, interested in getting an outcome.”
McConnell said “no action is just not an option” for Republicans.
Earlier on Tuesday, McConnell announced the Senate vote on the bill will be delayed so Senate Republicans can discuss their “differences.”
“I had hoped, as you know, that we could have gotten to the floor this week, but we’re not quite there,” he said. “But I think we’ve got a really good chance of getting there, it’ll just take us a little bit longer.”
Are turtle-years like dog-years, Yertle? Your timeframe is kinda hard to follow…
In dog-years, the GOP has only been working on ACA repeal for 1 year,
In turtle-years, it seems like 49 years.
What whattaya know. Even the genius maneuverer is having trouble getting the Killing Grandma Act of 2017 through. I’m no genius maneuverer myself, just a casual observer really, but I think having less grandma-killing is a thought. Just sayin’. And maybe tell the rich people the society actually thinks they’re already rich enough and people don’t want to die just so they can be richer. People are funny like that.
It will be back, it will be just as bad, and it will pass. In the end, even Susan Collins will vote for it.
Maybe he will pass new rules that say its ok only for this session to have things pass with only 40 votes.
McConnell: "I think everybody around the table is interested in getting to yes, interested in getting an outcome.”
Trump: “And if we don’t get it done, it’s just going to be something that we’re not going to like. And that’s okay, and I understand that very well.”