Hours before House vote, GOP blames each other over American Health Care Act's likely failure
FRIDAY, MAR 24, 2017 09:52 AM EDT
Hours before House vote, GOP blames each other over American Health Care Act’s likely failure
Republicans are holding a bill likely to fail, and they're all starting to point fingers at each other
MATTHEW ROZSA
Amidst reports that Republican leaders have been frantically rewriting their Obamacare repeal bill in order to win more GOP support, while Republican voters themselves only have lukewarm support for the measure, there are now early signs that the Trump administration is pessimistic about the impending vote scheduled for later on Friday.
In an interview with ABC News on Friday morning, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney admitted that he didn’t know if there enough votes to pass the American Health Care Act. “That’s up to the House to count their own votes,” Mulvaney told ABC News.
Meanwhile John Harwood, a reporter for The New York Times and CNBC, tweeted that a senior White House aide told him that it would be “100 percent” best for the Trump administration if the repeal bill fails when it comes to a vote later on Friday.
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This view is consistent with the position that has been taken by Breitbart about the replacement bill, which has long been critical of it as being insufficiently conservative and a detriment to Trump’s overall political agenda. As New York Magazine reported, White House chief strategist (and former Breitbart CEO) Steve Bannon may have a personal stake in wanting to see the bill — and its primary sponsor, House Speaker Paul Ryan — suffer an embarrassing defeat.
The failure to repeal and replace Obamacare would be a stinging defeat for Trump. But it would be an even bigger defeat for Paul Ryan, who has all but staked his Speakership on passing this bill. And in the hall of mirrors that is Washington, the big winner to emerge out of the health-care debacle could be Steve Bannon. That’s because Bannon has been waging war against Ryan for years. For Bannon, Ryan is the embodiment of the “globalist-corporatist” Republican elite. A failed bill would be Bannon’s best chance yet to topple Ryan and advance his nationalist-populist economic agenda.
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But history tells us that the GOP (greedy old phuckers) will fall in line and get it done. 
