The Senate will vote as early as Tuesday afternoon on the first procedural vote on Obamacare repeal as party leaders prepare to make more last-minute changes to win the needed 50 votes.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Republicans don’t yet have the votes on the motion to proceed to the bill, which would likely occur either Tuesday or Wednesday. And the party got a mixed review on Monday afternoon from the Congressional Budget Office. The non-partisan analysts estimated that 22 million more people will be uninsured over the next decade but also gave the Senate GOP leeway to spend nearly $200 billion more on the legislation to win over wavering senators.
Senate Republicans released a new version of their bill to repeal Obamacare earlier Monday and are preparing further changes to overcome deep opposition in the party toward last week’s initial effort. Cornyn, the party’s chief vote-counter, said the procedural vote will be “very close.”
“We’re trying to accommodate [senators’] concerns without losing other support,” Cornyn said. “When senators tell me they want to get to yes, that means we have a very good chance to get to yes.”
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The Republican House version of Trump Care was “mean” according to Donald Trump, although he praised it and celebrated its passage. The Senate version isn’t “mean enough”. Theocrats like Ted Cruz and John Cornyn want to wage all out war against women’s right to preventive care, reproductive care, screening and reproductive counseling. Cruz and Cornyn are also Yuge on discrimination, both voting against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act because it would infringe on a desire to discriminate based on their fundamentalist beliefs; something they refer to as “religious freedom”.