President Donald Trump, second from left, with Vice President Mike Pence, left, shakes hands with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kty., center, before the start of a meeting with House and Senate leaders at the White House. (Photo: AP)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kty., said Tuesday the upper chamber will hold a procedural vote to repeal ObamaCare early next week. People’s Pundit Daily is told the decision was made after consulting with the White House, which wants lawmakers on the record.
“We’ll have the vote on the motion to proceed to the repeal early next week,” Leader McConnell said on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Liberal Republican Senators Susan Collins (Maine), Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) basically killed the effort to repeal ObamaCare by announcing they would not support the effort without a replacement. It was the latest defeat for the slim Republican Senate majority on health care, which followed another effort to corral conservatives with the Consumer Freedom Amendment.
That fell apart on Monday and President Donald J. Trump called on Congress to vote on repeal of the law and replacement it at a later date.
From Left to Right: Sens. Susan Collins, Maine, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, and Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia. (Photos: AP)
Sens. Murkowski and Capito both voted “Yes” on the exact same bill in 2015, when Republicans voted 52-47 to repeal ObamaCare because they knew it would be vetoed by Barack Obama. Sen. Collins voted “No” in 2015.
Now that Republicans have the chance to cast a meaningful vote with a president willing to sign it, they caved. It’s perhaps the biggest broken political promise in modern U.S. history, rivaling Barack Obama’s “if you like your plan/doctor” vow.
President Trump wants to move on to tax reform and let the politicians suffer the consequences of their inaction and broken promises.
“I think we’re probably in that position where we’ll let ObamaCare fail,” he said. “I’m not going to own it… We’ll let ObamaCare fail and then the Democrats are going to come to us.”
