Courtesy of NBC News:BREAKING: Republicans on Graham-Cassidy health care bill: "We don't have the votes." https://t.co/LHqq2AujL8— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) September 26, 2017
Short on votes and time, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is moving on from health care for now.
Republican senators decided during their weekly conference lunch to not take a vote on a measure that was sure to go down in defeat with three senators explicitly against it and others wavering.
“The decision was a joint one between Lindsey and Bill and the other two sponsors and also the leader that if the votes are not there, not to have the vote, but not to give up,” said Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., after leaving the lunch referring to the latest health care bill’s co-sponsors, Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bill Cassidy, R-La.
With no Democrats supporting the repeal of Obamacare, Senate Republicans could only lose the support of two of its 52-member caucus and still pass the bill. On Monday evening, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, became the third GOP senator to publicly oppose the measure, delivering a fatal blow to what was already a last-ditch effort. Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and John McCain, R-Ariz., had previously said that they were against the measure as well.
The Graham-Cassidy legislation was the latest version of a series of efforts to partially repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but none were able to find the 50 votes it needed for passage.
You know it just breaks the GOP's heart that they have failed once again to take healthcare away from millions of their fellow Americans.
Maybe they will get lucky on their way home from work today and run over a squirrel.
You know just so the day is not a total loss for them.
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