Names Eleven Senators Who Just Months Ago Refused to Vote McConnell’s New Proposal to ‘Repeal and Delay’
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wasted no time Tuesday morning responding to his Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell‘s announcement the body will vote on a bill to fully repeal ObamaCare and enact a two-year delay. The Senate health care bill stunningly exploded and effectively died overnight. Some are calling McConnell’s latest tactic, one that the Senate considered but dropped just months ago, “repeal and delay.”
After explaining the drastic effects repealing ObamaCare without a valid replacement would have on the nation, Senator Schumer said he would “expect the same Senators, who were concerned about TrumpCare bill’s Medicaid cuts, will be equally concerned about what repeal and delay would do to Medicaid,” the New York Democrat said on the Senate floor.
“Many of my Republican friends rejected roundly the idea of repeal and delay several months ago at the beginning of the year. When President Trump first proposed it it seemed like that’s what Republicans would do. Here are just some of the names of Senators who said repeal and replace later doesn’t work: Cassidy, Alexander, Collins, Corker, Cotton, Hatch, Isakson, Moran, McCain, Murkowski, Paul.”
Schumer looked up and said, “the idea hasn’t gotten better with age.”
And in just the past few minutes two Republican Senators have already denounced McConnell’s proposal. One more and repeal and delay will be dead, also.
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