Senate republicans are struggling to get the Trump tax reduction law on the senate floor. Republicans had hoped to have a voice (et) of 4 p.m. about a motion to continue so that that debate could start with the last passage.
While they negotiate, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced that unless Republicans change the language about Medicaid debitings, he is not a voice about both the motion to continue and the final passage.
Here is Tillis’ statement:
Everything Tillis said about the impact of the Senate Medicaid Cuts was correct. The cutbacks in the Senate Act are worse than those in the home version, but the house account is not much better.
The great picture for Democrats is that, unless the Senate-Republican leadership makes great changes to the legislation, Democrats only need two more in the Senate to kill the final passage of the bill, because Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has already announced that he is not a voice.
There is a group of republican senators who continue to falter at the last passage, which means that all this is not a foregone dealer.
If Senate Republicans refuse to change the Medicaid language, there are a dozen moderate republicans of the house that are willing to vote for the final passage.
All this seems shaky because it is.
Republicans can skate through the skin of their teeth through congress and this legislation, but the political costs to be saddled with such unpopular legislation could cost many of them their seats.
Democrats and the vast majority of Americans who want this bill to fail, are almost the victory.
Senator Tillis could turn his voice to yes, if the senate republicans weaken their cuts to Medicaid, but there is no indication that will happen, so it seems that there is a chance to place Trump’s big wonderful account in the garbage can in history.
