[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

For the love of God, somebody please explain to me why full repeal would require 60 votes when it was passed with 51? What the hell?

[Valpal1]

It was passed with 60 votes. All new bills require 60 votes and a clean repeal would be a new bill, so 60 votes.

But they can slowly gut it using reconciliation bills and pass them with 51 votes.

Or we need 8 Democrat defectors.