Trump went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday attempting to get more Congressmen to vote for his healthcare bill, but he doesn’t yet have the support he needs to pass the bill when it comes to a vote on Thursday.
Trump can afford to lose 21 members in the House and two in the Senate and still get the bill through Congress. As of Tuesday afternoon, 23 Congressmen have said they will vote against the bill including three Congressman from Virginia, Dave Brat, Tom Garrett, and Rob Whitman. (Virginia Congressman Scott Taylor has announced he will vote for the bill.) Three other Congressmen are leaning toward voting against the bill.
In the Senate 6 members have said they will vote against the bill with another ten expressing serious concerns.
Senators opposing Trumpcare:
Senator Rand Paul (Kentucky)
Senator Mike Lee (Utah)
Senator Tom Cotton (AR)
Senator Susan Collins (Maine
Senator Ted Cruz (Texas)
Senator Dean Heller (NV)
House members opposing Trumpcare:
Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio)
Rep. Justin Amash (Mich)
Rep. Dave Brat (VA)
Rep. Mo Brooks (Ala)
Rep. Raúl R. Labrador (Idaho)
Rep.Thomas Massie (Ky)
Rep. Rob Wittman (VA)
Rep. Leonard Lance (NJ)
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fl.)
Rep. Warren Davidson (Ohio)
Rep. Andy Harris (MD)
Rep. Thomas Garrett (VA)
Rep. Mark Sanford (SC)
Rep. Eric A. “Rick” Crawford (AR)
Rep. John Katko (NY)
Rep. Mark Meadows (NC)
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (PA)
Rep. Glenn Thompson (PA)
Rep Joe Barton (TX)
Rep. Lou Barletta (PA)
Rep. Ted Budd (NC)
Rep. Todd Young (Alaska)
Rep. Rod Blum (Iowa)
There are another 16 Senators and 26 House members who have “serious concerns” about the healthcare bill. That list can be found here. Unless the bill is rewritten it looks like it won’t pass on Thursday.
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President Trump was elected to a Republican White House on some quite specific campaign commitments that he was crystal clear in proposing to the American voter base during the presidential primary campaign. These commitments stood out in stark contrast to the remainder of the field and was the major lever to seeing him secure the nomination as a political outsider. Healthcare and the repeal of Obamacare was one of those central commitments (along with immigration and jobs). None of this was really new ground as the Republican Party had been promising to deliver said repeal at re-election time for the past eight years, always with the justification for failure, that they did not hold the necessary elected majorities to accomplish anything realistic. They how have the majorities (although I have heard several elected Republican officials claim how difficult this will still be without super majorities e.g. the cycle continues).
We are at the point in many ways of no return for the party on Thursday’s vote. Will the reformist executive we believed we put in place manage and control the government as it’s chief executive or will we have in effect elected someone to set in the White House and spam tweets while establishment Republican Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and his crony leadership team of Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Policy Committee Chair Luke Messer (R-Ind.) actually run the the nation and it’s policy decisions. Keep firmly in mind NO one has elected any of them to represent national public opinion.
If the old establishment wins this vote via the cowardice of the House elected majority and mind numbing compliance of the Trump administration it will be a very pyrrhic victory indeed as the price paid will be the clear message for the voting base that reform of the Republican Party just can not be done from the inside. It leaves few options for the republican voting base and none of them good for individuals running under the Republican Party banner.
As Lucy says… “Go ahead Charlie Brown, this time will be different!”
So you’re predicting weasels won’t be weasels?
How many years have they been singing repeal and when we agreed at the polls they threw in ‘and replace.’
The GOP will always bite us halfway across the river and we will drown… it is their nature.
I’m still betting on Trump for the win.
Yup. They bite us every time.
1) Scrap it.
2) Then give us broad tax cuts.
3) Go back to the drawing board and deliver real healthcare freedom.
Pass or fail, the Dems win.
every time Trump speaks, the Dems win
The title of this article is a lie, Jeanine. It should read, “Wall St. doesn’t yet have the votes to pass the Trumpcare bill that they wrote”. A bill that would pump hundreds of billions of dollars of middle class cash into their pockets and screw Americans.
I could foresee a scenario where they would still vote, knowing the bill won’t pass.
Paul Ryan and the rest of the GOPe scum could use the failure as an excuse to go after their fellow Repubs and clean house. Actively campaign against them (or primary them) because they helped block the Obamacare “repeal”.
Shore up their numbers and then try this again after the mid-terms.
I hope they do… bring it, it will be fun to do the same to them — primaries for everyone!! (The SCC IS buying!)