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applegrove

(118,430 posts)
Sat Sep 2, 2017, 06:02 PM Sep 2017

Deadline to Repeal Obamacare Approaches

https://politicalwire.com/2017/09/02/deadline-repeal-obamacare-approaches/

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“In a potential death knell for efforts to repeal Obamacare — at least this year — the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that Republicans face a Sept. 30 deadline to kill or overhaul the law with only 50 votes,” Politico reports.

“In search of a badly needed legislative victory, McConnell and other Senate Republicans have shifted their focus instead to tax reform. Yet President Donald Trump — who has repeatedly predicted Obamacare is about to implode — has called for another repeal vote in the Senate, as have GOP conservative hard-liners in both the House and Senate.”

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