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Pivotal Week for Trumpcare/ACA repeal.

7/23/2017

 

If Republicans don't Repeal and Replace the disastrous ObamaCare, the repercussions will be far greater than any of them understand!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2017
After another rewrite, another meeting with the President, another meeting with the Vice President, another couple CBO scores... the Senate is (maybe) finally going to bring something to the floor for a procedural vote this week.  Word is that it may happen Tuesday, but we have seen this script play out before.  What seems like ages ago, the House was just an hour or so away from voting on passage before pulling the bill for a rewrite that ended up passing before getting tossed in the trash bin of the Senate cloakroom.

It isn't even clear what exactly will be voted on.  Will it be the most recent Senate draft?  Will it be another draft?  Will it just be a clean ACA repeal?  Will it need 60 or 51 votes? On that last bit, the Senate Parliamentarian ruled  multiple key aspects of the latest Trumpcare draft to require a 60 vote super majority rather than being able to pass through reconciliation rules. (Not impossible to get around this in the same manner that the Senate GOP confirmed Gorsuch earlier this year.)

Key Senators to watch come into a couple groups:

1.  Senators that may vote against the latest draft but could vote for a clean repeal:
  • Lee
  • Moran
2.  Senators that are going to be against a clean repeal and are likley to oppose (or are opposing) the current Senate draft as well:
  • Murkowski
  • Collins
  • Heller
  • Capito

Also worth noting that McCain is likley to miss this next week as well.  Therefore, Senate Republicans can only afford to lose 1 vote and not 2 before the bill fails.  Therefore, McConnell, for just a clean repeal, will need to flip 3 of the second group and for the latest draft would need to flip both of the first group and three of the second group. 

I included the Trump Tweet in this post to highlight the elephant in the room: Trump could turn his fury at any Senator that opposes him on this.  Most vulnerable Republicans are Flake and Heller.  Trump reportedly met with Flake's 2018 primary opponent this last week.  Heller has already drawn a credible Democratic challenger and Flake is expected to draw one soon as well in the 47 year old Mayor of Phoenix, Greg Stanton.  There are also rumors that Mike Kelly (former astronaut and husband of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords) is considering a run.

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