Current Events > no health care vote this week

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https://www.axios.com/senate-delays-health-care-vote-until-after-recess-2449221847.html?utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=organic

Senate Republican leaders have done an abrupt about-face on the health care bill: They're now planning to delay the vote to take up the bill until after the July 4 recess, according to two senior GOP aides. They say Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the announcement at the beginning of today's Senate Republican lunch.

The bottom line: "Vote after break. McConnell wants to win. Going to make changes new score and win," said one aide.

What's next: "Work over the next 72 hrs to come to an agreement. Vote after the break," per another GOP aide.

Between the lines: Majority Whip John Cornyn had said earlier that the vote was going ahead. But ultimately, the decision is McConnell's — and he was getting too much pushback from Senate Republican holdouts who said they weren't ready to vote this quickly, without changes to the bill.
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Why do they bother? It's going to be hated and they're going to lose seats because of their corporate partisan bullshit.
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The real moral of the story is that the Republican party isn't really a lockstep bloc.

Lmao, and republican voters are duped again
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An actual fix to Obamacare is called the Public Option.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

The real moral of the story is that the Republican party isn't really a lockstep bloc.

did anyone say anything else?

they are much more ideologically and geographically diverse than the dems
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MC_BatCommander posted...

Lmao, and republican voters are duped again

I don't know. I think they're just trying to table it for a couple weeks when people won't be as attentive/mad.
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Is it too early to chalk this up as "Trump Failure #20533788"?
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