Trump lashes out on Twitter following McCain’s comments on Friday

President Trump, asked by reporters Sunday evening whether he thinks the Senate will pass the bill, took another swipe at McCain, saying the senator is voting against the legislation “for whatever reason”.

The other, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, voted against the healthcare bills in July but has not given a definitive answer on the Graham-Cassidy bill.

“Right now, they don’t have my vote”, Cruz said during a panel discussion in Austin.

Opposition grew on Sunday to the plan by Senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy that could be up for a vote on the Senate floor this week. By Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz said he did not support the bill – dealing what could be a fatal blow. This complicated passage in the 100-member Senate, where Republicans hold 52 seats and Democrats are unanimously opposed to repeal-and-replace measures. John McCain (R-AZ), who once campaigned on “leading the fight to repeal Obamacare“, also announced Friday he will not be voting for the bill. “The Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson bill does not move us closer to that goal”, said the coalition, which included the American Medical Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, and America’s Health Insurance Plans.

Senate GOP leaders are crafting 11th-hour changes in their last-ditch Obamacare repeal bill to win over Sens.

That’s clear by the dozens of futile votes while Obama was in office, and emphasized by several failed attempts to either simply repeal Obamacare or repeal and replace it since Donald Trump became president. Trump spent much of August needling McConnell for his failure to pass a repeal bill, and Republican lawmakers back home during Congress’ summer recess heard repeatedly from voters angered that after seven years of promises to get rid of “Obamacare”, the party had not delivered.

White House director of legislative affairs Marc Short said on “Fox News Sunday” that the effort is not dead.

“If we got word that there was movement on Sens. As you know, there’s no Democrat support for it”, Mr. He cited concerns with the Republican’s partisan process and their lack of hearings, markups and amendments in the Senate.

“With Arizona Senator John McCain and Rand Paul (R-KY) saying they oppose the bill and intend to vote ‘No” on Wednesday, and Susan Collins of ME “leaning heavily against” the bill, even if all other GOP senators votes for it, the bill will still fall short. “I have a number of serious reservations about it”.

Paul said if Graham and Cassidy removed the block-grant provisions he would consider supporting it. So I don’t know what they’re doing, ‘ Trump said.

No complete government analysis of the GOP proposal’s impact will be available before Senate leaders had hoped to have a vote on the Cassidy-Graham bill by September 30.

For the most part, the 19 states that rejected ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion and decided not to take federal money to provide health care for more poor adults come out ahead under the new GOP bill. Far from it. The bill’s authors are my dear friends, and I think the world of them. Advocates say that would give states more discretion to manage their own healthcare schemes.

“I can not in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal”. And this isn’t going to work. McCain’s opposition will likely sink the latest Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

“They could remove the block grants from it”.