Most Republicans hope the president will drop the idea of trying to come up with a replacement for Obamacare, which the GOP has failed to accomplish for nearly a decade.
Month: March 2019
Trump push to renew Obamacare repeal blindsides GOP
Donald Trump is making a new push to repeal Obamacare, blindsiding many GOP lawmakers. Joy Reid and her panel discuss the 21 million people who could lose their healthcare if Obamacare is repealed.
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At Trump rallies, the new ‘lock her up’ is ‘AOC sucks’
If a person were to get all of their political information from Fox News — take, for example, the president of the United States — that person could very well believe that the most potent threat to America’s delicate democracy is not the rise in white supremacist violence within its borders nor the alleged electoral interference from without. Enemy number one has been anointed, and it’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Fox News’ fixation with Ocasio-Cortez is undeni...
Fractious Democrats band together to defend health-care law from Trump’s attack
Protecting the Affordable Care Act helped Democrats win the House majority last year, and several freshmen owe their seats, in part, to Republicans’ ill-fated effort to gut the law.
Trump won’t defend an act of Congress in court. He’s following Obama’s lead.
The administration says it won't defend the Affordable Care Act because it's unconstitutional. The Obama administration made a similar argument when it declined to defend the Defense of Marriage Act.
Trump Administration Approves Medicaid Work Requirements in Utah
The move came two days after a federal court blocked similar requirements in Arkansas and Kentucky and reaffirmed the administration’s conservative priorities.
House to vote on resolution condemning Trump admin over Obamacare repeal efforts
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Friday that the House will vote on a resolution next week condemning the Trump administration's efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA)."This week, the Trump Admini...
Why Republicans are balking at replacing Obamacare, again
President Donald Trump wants to make the Republicans “the party of health care.” But GOP lawmakers are not eager to draft a plan to replace Obamacare.
With social program fights, some Republicans fear being seen as the party of the 1 percent
Democrats see a potential political opening in Trump’s renewal of attempts to kill Obamacare and to enact broad cuts to health-care spending and other popular programs.