‘ObamaCare is torturing the American People’: Trump predicts Republicans will have a ‘great victory’ in today’s Obamacare repeal vote after John McCain’s surprise return to the Senate
Trump ordered senators yesterday from the bully pulpit of the White House to vote to begin debate on an Obamacare repeal bill today
But lawmakers don’t even know what repeal route they’re voting to take
They could pursue legislation that would gut the existing health law now and delay the consequences for two years while they figure out a fix
Trump wants them to move ahead with legislation that seeks to meet both aims simultaneously but will take what he can get
‘ObamaCare is torturing the American People. The Democrats have fooled the people long enough. Repeal or Repeal & Replace! I have pen in hand,’ he said
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a razor-thin margin for error
The GOP can lose two votes, if the vice president acts as a tie breaker, and come out ahead, now that John McCain has returned to the Senate
By Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent
DailyMail.com
25 July 2017
President Donald Trump is predicting a ‘great victory’ for Republicans today in the Senate vote that will determine whether debate begins on an Obamacare repeal bill.
‘ObamaCare is torturing the American People. The Democrats have fooled the people long enough. Repeal or Repeal & Replace! I have pen in hand,’ Trump tweeted.
The president also gave Senator John McCain a hero’s welcome back to Washington on Tuesday as the Capitol braced itself for the vote that’s a linchpin to Trump’s domestic policy agenda.
McCain, who’s recovering from brain surgery, could be the decider in the procedural motion that needs 51 votes to pass. The GOP holds 52 seats in the Senate and can lean on the vice president in case of a tie.
‘So great that John McCain is coming back to vote. Brave – American hero!’ Trump said of the man he once derided as not a war hero’ because he was captured and held prisoner as a solider fighting in Vietnam.
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