White House director for legislative affairs Marc Short on Sunday said Republicans could vote on a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare within a few weeks.
“We’re getting close,” Short said on “Fox News Sunday.”
He said that if Republicans cannot agree on a plan to replace Obamacare, they should “take care of the first step and repeal” the legislation before coming up with a replacement.
“We hope that we come back the week after recess, we’ll have a vote,” Short said.
He dismissed the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office’s report that 22 million more people would lose coverage by 2026 under the Republican bill than under current law.
“That’s ridiculous,” Short insisted. “That’s not losing, that’s choosing.”
He said Trump “this weekend is continuing to make calls to members to try to get the Senate package across the finish line.”
According to NBC News, Trump is spending the weekend at his New Jersey golf club.
“We’re getting close,” Short said
Close to pants shitting, maybe, but not voting.
I think The Apprentice’s frustration with repeal of Obamacare has reached its breaking point. I believe he will encourage the Senate to repeal it now and pass a “replacement” ( The Trump Obituary Care Plan ) subsequently. He is acting out more and more each day. A clear sign that he will erupt if the Senate does not have the votes to pass the toxic Senate bill.
Everyone should keep in mind— if congress can successfully cripple Medicaid, then next on the chopping block will be Medicare itself as well as Social Security. Crippling or killing both programs has been a long time conservative fantasy which can now be made real
Translation- “We will make health insurance prohibitively expensive and simultaneously useless. When people choose not to buy it, anything that happens to their health is all on them.”
Official Trump GOP position: 22 million being stripped of health insurance to fund tax cuts for the rich is “choosing” to be insured. We officially a nation run by sociopaths.