Senate Republicans to make another attempt at Obamacare repeal

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67. They can after Oct. 1, because that is when the new fiscal year starts.

They were attempting a slick 2-reconciliation maneuver, and they NEEDED big Medicaid
cuts in the healthcare bill to provide wiggle room for permanent cuts in their tax bill.

Since they didn't pass a budget last year, this reconciliation counted as last year's. They get one more for the next fiscal year, which starts on Oct. 1.

Therefore, they can use the budgetary reconciliation process once more and will try to use it for the tax cuts they want. The reason Mitch tried that slick 2-reconciliations maneuver was because they needed to cut some spending by way of the ostensible health care bill in order to provide revenue neutral wiggle room for their tax "reform," because they hope to make those tax cuts permanent. If they are not revenue neutral, they will expire in 10 years.

Trump couldn't understand why they insisted on doing healthcare first, but that is why--to use the reconciliation trick twice to avoid the filibuster. But since the new fiscal year would prevent them from using the second one, they needed to get healthcare done before Oct. 1.

And THAT is why Mitch was in such a desperate rush on the healthcare bill--and why they needed to cut Medicaid.