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By DAVID COHEN 09/10/2017 07:00 PM EDT
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said Republicans in Congress assured President Donald Trump that repealing and replacing Obamacare would be a quick process.
In an interview on Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes" on CBS, Bannon said congressional Republicans pledged to Trump they would be able to eliminate the Affordable Care Act by Easter a timetable the Trump administration agreed to so it could move on to other matters.
"Paul Ryan and these guys come in and said, 'We've done this for seven years. We've voted on this 50 times. We understand this issue better than anybody. We know how to repeal and we know how to replace, and this is ours. That's what we're going to start with day one, and we will have something on your desk by Easter,' " said Bannon, explaining the proposal from Capitol Hill.
The expectation was that getting it done would clear the way for tax reform during the summer, followed by infrastructure. "That was the deal," Bannon told Charlie Rose in the "60 Minutes" interview conducted Wednesday.
At a Republican retreat in January, Ryan described a timetable like the one Bannon discussed and said he had shared the timetable with the newly inaugurated president. It certainly aligned with Trump's repeated promises during the campaign to quickly repeal Obamacare and replace it with something better.
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Mister Ed
(5,896 posts)burnbaby
(685 posts)I will get affordable health insurance?Not holding my breath
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)Not happy at the people whom pay the price for their ineptness and malice but to the extent that their ineptness and incompetence prevents them for harming us worse, I'm all for it.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)Sorry, but I read that as "Easter" being the replacement for Obamacare. Sometimes I crack myself up.
Turbineguy
(37,213 posts)Easter is about the Resurrection. The Triumph of Life over death.
Of course republican christianity is largely perverted.