Rep. Steve King (R-IA) criticized the plan favored by House Republican leadership to replace Obamacare, saying Thursday that “we should have had more time to digest it.”
King, a conservative Trump ally, shared with CNN’s Chris Cuomo concerns now voiced by many in his position: that the American Health Care Act is moving too quickly.
Cuomo started by asking King about a statement from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who said Tuesday morning that House leadership should “pause, start over. Get it right, don’t get it fast.”
“I hear what he has to say,” King said, referring to Cotton, “and I think it’s got merit to consider this, but also the White House and the leadership has had a discussion about how they want the timing of this to work and so they rolled this bill out, and we should have had more time to digest it. I’d have rather seen it out there for a week or 10 days before they go to committee to mark it up.”
“It really isn’t much time for anybody to bring amendments to try to make a change and we don’t get amendments passed unless we get public support for that, and it takes time for the organizations from outside to weigh in. I’d just like to see more time,” he continued, adding later: “If nothing gets done here in this Congress, we are stuck with Obamacare for a cycle or more.”
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said of the health care bill: “We’re not jamming this down anybody’s throat.”
The first of two separate parts of the Republicans’ proposal cleared the House Ways and Means Committee on party lines, after 16 hours of debate, after 4 a.m. ET on Thursday.
Watch below via CNN:
Republican @SteveKingIA on speed of #Obamacarerepeal bill: “We should have had more time to digest it” https://t.co/MtEO8Bcont
— New Day (@NewDay) March 9, 2017
Normally, it takes Steve several days just to open his jaws wide enough to swallow an entire Bill and then several weeks for it to work its way through Steve’s digestive system…
Personally, I find that walking with heavy bags of marijuana on my shoulders, on the hot dusty trail from Tijuana to Cedar Rapids, is the best thing for health. Somehow, when your calves are like cantelopes, you never get sick.
We should let the anaconda at the Des Moines zoo have plenty of time to digest Steve King.
Trump: This bill is indigestible. More you look at it, more you will hate it. Best to ignore it all and let me sell it to my uninformed and bigoted supporters.All you need to know is that everyone’s(if you are a republican) healthcare is now free.
Why a need to digest?
Tweeto Cheeto had it all pre-chewed and shat out for you when he unilaterally repealed ACA on the day he took office.