Analysis: The GOP’s capitulation on Obamacare
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow April 3 at 1:07 PM Over the past week, President Trump has called Obamacare a “catastrophe,” a “disaster,” an “absolute disaster” and “terrible.” He has said that its costs place too much burden on millions of Americans and that it needs to go.
Trump’s decision to lean in on health care in recent days has been met with a stiff-arm from congressional Republicans. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy cautioned Trump against his Justice Department’s new effort to have the entire law struck down, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell served notice this week that the Senate will not be taking up health-care legislation. GOP leaders have gotten Trump to back off, at least on the latter count.
That law’s political staying power became pretty clear last Congress, when Republicans gradually abandoned their past support for flat-out repeal and decided they could not get rid of the law without replacing it. And then they failed to do that, even though they had control of both chambers of Congress. Trump will blame the late senator John McCain for that, but the GOP bill polled atrociously.
The difference now is they are not really pretending this is their priority anymore, and Trump’s aborted decision to raise this issue again has laid that bare. As David M. Drucker notes, rather than emphasizing repealing and replacing the law as they have for years, Republicans who are set to face voters are instead emphasizing working within the existing system on some changes. And that goes even for red-staters such as Sen. John Cornyn , for whom running on repeal used to be a no-brainer.
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