"The U.S. Senate should switch to 51 votes, immediately, and get Healthcare and TAX CUTS approved, fast and easy".
President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that the Senate should use the nuclear option to pass health care and tax reform.
Both the current healthcare bill, the American Health Care Act, and Trump's tax reform principles have faced unanimous opposition from Democrats.
Still, key GOP senators have signaled the plan they will craft will have major differences from the House proposal. Not only that, but the agenda items the president listed - health care and tax reform - are being advanced through a process known as reconciliation, which only requires a simple majority of 51 votes for passage anyway. Democrats unanimously oppose the AHCA and Senate Republicans are divided over the bill.
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We could sit here all night and talk about things that we have to do to make us better as a group. I am sure he will make that decision when he is ready, but I was delighted to lead that team out.
Republicans - having 54 Senate seats - could pass the AHCA, but party leaders haven't consolidated GOP support for the bill. The legislative filibuster remains in place for most other bills, but McConnell has resisted calls to end it wholesale-including a previous demand from Trump in May. "But if it's better than ObamaCare, I think we will have fulfilled our promise we made election after election to repeal and replace ObamaCare".
While Republicans haven't yet released their tax proposal, House Republicans' health care bill was created to meet the legislative rules required to pass the Senate with a simple majority. "There is an overwhelming bipartisan majority that is not interested in changing how the Senate operates on the legislative calendar and that will not happen", McConnell said this month.
The Trump administration initially set an August goal for passing a tax overhaul, but has since pushed the timeline to sometime this year.
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