Sceptical senators Lindsey Graham and Ron Johnson agree to vote for repeal on condition that it will trigger a congressional conference committee
Senate Republican leaders have unveiled their so-called “skinny repeal” bill – denounced by conservatives as a “fraud” and a “disaster” – in an eleventh-hour push to pass a pared-down repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
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Who are the ‘dopes’ that can’t pass a replacement healthcare bill?
Donald Trump has labeled the Republican senators who can’t scrape together a replacement for the Affordable Care Act – here’s who he may have meant
On Monday night Donald Trump reportedly told Republican senators they would look like “dopes” if they couldn’t pass a healthcare bill to replace the Affordable Care Act.
This is one of those occasions where the president might actually be right.
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