Republicans continue Obamacare repeal work despite opposition
By BURGESS EVERETT and JOSH DAWSEY 09/23/2017 02:32 PM EDT
Some Senate Republicans are continuing to work on their last-minute Obamacare repeal plan, according to sources familiar with the matter, even as the odds of success appear impossibly long.
The GOP is considering pushing back the implementation date and tweaking funding formulas in a bid to win over Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), a White House official said. Neither moderate Republican has announced their opposition to a bill written by Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, though Collins is "leaning against" the bill. "Tweaks are being made," the official said.
Cassidy, Graham and their allies on Capitol Hill and in the White House continued to work on tweaking their plan on Friday evening even after Sen. John McCain of Arizona dealt the bill an apparent death blow on Friday afternoon. A new version of the legislation could drop as soon as this weekend, those sources said.
McCain and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky oppose the bill to block grant the federal health care program to the states, and Collins has been seen as unwinnable by GOP leaders. If Republicans can get Murkowski's support, the GOP's thinking goes, then perhaps Paul or Collins can also be convinced, according to one of the sources familiar with the debate.
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