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Showing Original Post only (View all)TrumpCare could pass if Joe Manchin agrees to take Rick Perry's job [View all]
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/trumpcare-will-pass-if-this-conservative-dem-senator-agrees-to-take-rick-perrys-job/
To pass Trumpcare, Bloomberg News is reporting that White House officials are considering nominating Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to become the next Energy Secretary.
If Manchin were offered and accepted the position, that would allow West Virginias Governor Jim Justice a newly minted Republican to appoint a GOP successor and bring the party a vote closer in the Senate to being able to repeal Obamacare, Bloomberg explained.
The position of Energy Secretary is currently being held by Texas Governor Rick Perry, who famously couldnt remember that he wanted to entirely eliminate the department he now runs. Perry has been rumored to be moved to the Department of Homeland Security or even the Attorney Generals office.
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Yet to execute the idea and pass an Obamacare repeal, Republicans and the administration would have to pull off a highly choreographed series of events, Bloomberg noted. Perry would have to agree to take another job, the Senate would have to confirm Manchin as Energy Secretary, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would then have to bring a repeal bill back up without losing any of the 49 Republican senators who voted for the so-called skinny repeal.
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TrumpCare could pass if Joe Manchin agrees to take Rick Perry's job [View all]
Miles Archer
Aug 2017
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What's in it for him ? Granted he's up for re-election in 2018, and 70 in 2 weeks time but still
OnDoutside
Aug 2017
#4
Rachel reported that Manchin said he hasn't spoken with the administration about this move
eleny
Aug 2017
#9
I heard her say he hadn't spoken to him "recently" which tells me that he has spoken to
KewlKat
Aug 2017
#18
He's energy secretary in spite of not being smart enough to screw in a lightbulb
mythology
Aug 2017
#13
The Irony of this is that WV residents will be the hardest hit from repeal of OC (NT)
louis c
Aug 2017
#28
And for many of them, even after they're either told they have no medical coverage, or the bills
lindysalsagal
Aug 2017
#30