Posted on 11/11/2016 10:39:50 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Trump-backing congressman says GOP will use budget 'reconciliation' to repeal Obamacare in first 100 days depriving Democrats of the chance to filibuster it
* Rep. Chris Collins, the first Republican to endorse President-elect Trump, says the GOP will move legislation to repeal Obamacare within Trump's first 100 days
* Party would use budget procedure that would let them jam it through on a simple majority vote, depriving Senate Democrats of the filibuster
* Medical device tax, 30-hour workweek for coverage, employer mandate, employee mandate all could go, gutting the plan
* Says there would be a 'transition' for 2017
The Republican push to repeal Obamacare is going on a fast track under a procedure that would make minority Democrats powerless to stop it, the first Republican congressman to endorse President-elect Donald Trump said Friday.
Republicans who now have unified control of Congress plan to move to repeal Obamacare during the first 100 days of the incoming Trump administration, said Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY).
They would do this under a budget procedure called 'reconciliation,' which requires a simple majority vote to approve tax and spending changes.
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Good.
To Dingy Harry; Live by the sword, dies by the sword.
Seems fair.
They passed it with 50, we can repeal it with 50.
Didn’t they use reconciliation to pass it in the first place?
By reconciliation it arose. By reconciliation it shall die.
Finally!
Nice start to a long list of agenda items:
Clintons gone
Bill and Hillary victims vindicated
Obamas gone
Kerry gone
ValJar gone
NeoCons destroyed
Bust of Churchill coming back (hope)
Criminal indictments
NAFTA renegotiated
TPP gone
Iran Deal blown up
ObamaCare gone
Originalist SCOTUS Judges in
1st, 2nd and 4th amendments secure
Executive orders wiped out
Wall built, drugs stopped, human trafficking stopped
MS13 deported
ISIS hunted down and killed wherever they are
Mosques monitored
Radical Islam in America routed out
Merry Christmas back
Johnson Amendment repealed
Religious Liberty protected
Law and Order restored
BLM faced down
Common Core gone
Liberal Indoctrination faced down
Chinese and Japanese trade deals renegotiated
Democrat and media cabal thoroughly exposed
No more bowing to dictators
No more money to other countries that can pay their own way
ISRAEL!
Improved relations with all US allies
Reestablishment of US as the shining city on a hill
Rebuilding of our military strength
Climate Change Hoax exposed neutered
Defund Planned Parenthood
Energy Independence Drill, baby Drill!
Nations Infrastructure Rebuilt
Inner Cities renewed with jobs and education choice
English as America’s official language
ID required to vote
Bump!
Turnabout is fair play.
Hey, you know what? They relied on this to ram it down the public’s throat, so it’s fitting they get it taken from them the same way (and only possible because of their having done that).
This monstrosity was born through reconciliation so its fitting that it dies that way.
You’ll pardon me if I remain skeptical until it’s dead, cremated, and effectively scattered: once burned—twice wise. The only way these Republican congressmen would actually do something so forthright is if Trump really did grab them. Got balls?
Take away the mandate and the medical device tax and people will be able to breathe again while the rest of it gets fixed.
Trump also mentioned a couple of weeks ago that he would suspend the fines.
Ditch the filibuster entirely. Soetoro outright ignored Congress anyways, and ditching the filibuster is hardly unconstitutional.
If McConnell is unwilling to commit to the abolition of the filibuster, he should have his Majority Leadership challenged, preferably by Sessions.
Easy-peasy.
They should be working on this now along with other parts of Trump’s agenda. So when January 21 comes they can hit the ground running at full speed.
Ya. But expect hypocrite Democrats to whine like babies when they do it.
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