Senate GOP effort to unwind the Affordable Care Act faces critical test Tuesday
By Sean Sullivan, Juliet Eilperin, Kelsey Snell -- The Washington Post
Senate Republicans will decide Tuesday whether to hold a vote on unwinding the Affordable Care Act, even though they lack the votes to achieve the policy goal that has animated their party for more than seven years.
While one top Republican senator held out the possibility that the Senate might still vote on a bill sponsored by GOP Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (La.), others accepted the reality that the push had sputtered out after Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) joined two of her fellow Republicans in formal opposition.
“Everybody knows that’s going to fail,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), who led a raucous five-hour hearing on the bill Monday afternoon. “You don’t have one Democrat vote for it. So it’s going to fail.”
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