House passes budget to begin Obamacare repeal

The Washington Times ^ | January 13, 2016 | Tom Howell Jr.

[jazusamo]

Nine Republicans balk at risky ‘repeal-and-replace’ strategy

The House passed a 2017 budget Friday that lays the groundwork for dismantling Obamacare, brushing aside intra-GOP anxiety and defiant Democrats to launch the repeal-and-replace strategy staked out by President-elect Donald Trump.

Nine Republicans balked at the politically thorny plan — the budget doesn’t balance, and the party hasn’t coalesced around a health bill of its own. But their defections weren’t nearly enough to tilt the 227-198 vote, which imposes a Jan. 27 deadline for crafting legislation that guts the Affordable Care Act.

“The ‘Unaffordable’ Care Act will soon be history!” Mr. Trump posted on Twitter before the vote.

The Senate approved the plan early Thursday on a 51-48 vote that brought in support from all but one Republican in the chamber, clearing the way for an eventual repeal vote that cannot be filibustered by Democrats.

[RetiredArmy]

Hints: Dems in the House & Senate...switch parties now or disappear into obscurity!!! End of story!!! Don't want them unless they are true to the cause of crashing the dims into oblivion.

[bIlluminati]

They aren’t RINOs. These 9 do not want the debt limit to rise by 9 trillion before Trump is inaugurated. They want some spending cuts along with ending the “can’t afford Obamacare? Pay the jizyah” tax.