Trump-backing congressman says GOP will use budget ‘reconciliation’ to repeal Obamacare in first 100 days – depriving Democrats of the chance to filibuster it
Rep. Chris Collins, the first Republican to endorse President-elect Trump, says the GOP will move legislation to repeal Obamacare within Trump’s first 100 days
Party would use budget procedure that would let them jam it through on a simple majority vote, depriving Senate Democrats of the filibuster
Medical device tax, 30-hour workweek for coverage, employer mandate, employee mandate all could go, gutting the plan
Says there would be a ‘transition’ for 2017
By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR
DAILYMAIL.COM
11 November 2016
The Republican push to repeal Obamacare is going on a fast track under a procedure that would make minority Democrats powerless to stop it, the first Republican congressman to endorse President-elect Donald Trump said Friday.
Republicans who now have unified control of Congress plan to move to repeal Obamacare during the first 100 days of the incoming Trump administration, said Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY).
They would do this under a budget procedure called ‘reconciliation,’ which requires a simple majority vote to approve tax and spending changes.
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