Conway: New Obamacare repeal effort 'gaining in support and steam'
Source: Politico
By LOUIS NELSON 09/18/2017 09:22 AM EDT
A last-ditch effort to repeal and replace Obamacare led by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy is “gaining in support and steam,” counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said Monday morning, leaving open the possibility that President Donald Trump might be able to make good on a campaign promise that had stalled out in the Senate.
“It could happen. And you probably know, and have been covering that the Graham-Cassidy bill is gaining in support and steam,” Conway said Monday morning on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.” “Many of the governors like it. I'm told we're close to 50 votes or so in the Senate.”
The legislation in question, crafted by Graham (R-S.C.) and Cassidy (R-La.), would take the money spent by the federal government on Obamacare and instead block grant it to states. It’s passage is almost certainly dependent on a Senate procedural rule called reconciliation, which would allow the bill to pass through the Senate with as few as 50 votes instead of the usual 60 required by the chamber’s filibuster rules.
The Senate’s authority to pass legislation via reconciliation expires at the end of September, giving GOP lawmakers two weeks to make good on their longtime promise to undo former President Barack Obama’s signature health care legislation. Republican leaders in the Senate are giving serious consideration to voting on the Graham-Cassidy bill, but a final decision has not yet been made and the legislation does not enjoy unanimous support among GOP senators.
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