The GOP’s Healthcare Bill Is Dead

After more than 50 votes to repeal Obamacare, a replacement attempt in the House that died in the Senate, and two failed Senate attempts at “repeal and replace” the GOP is abandoning its efforts to replace the ACA.

The next step will be a repeal vote, which, unlike the replacement effort, will be ineligible for the arcane “budget reconciliation” process and will thus be subject to a Democratic filibuster, requiring 60 votes to end debate and pass the Senate.

Why It Matters

President Trump has called on the Senate to end the filibuster in order to push through the repeal measure, a move which would diminish the power of the minority in the Senate as well as that of individual Senators. Such a change to the rules would be a political “hail-mary” but it represents the best hope Republicans have of delivering on the party’s signature issue of the last decade.

Tell Congress what you think!

Text RESIST to 50409 to tell your representatives what you think about the defeat of the GOP’s replacement effort, the threat to the Senate filibuster, or to see what else is happening in Congress this week!

Who Opposed the “Repeal and Replace”

Senate

• Mike Lee (R-UT)
• Jerry Moran (R-KS)
• Rand Paul (R-KY)
• Susan Collins (R-ME)

House

• Andy Biggs (R-AZ 5)
• Mike Coffman (R-CO 6)
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL 27)
• Thomas Massie (R-KY 4)
• Walter B. Jones (R-NC 3)
• Frank A. LoBiondo (R-NJ 2)
• Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ 4)
• Leonard Lance (R-NJ 7)
• Dan Donovan (R-NY 11)
• John Katko (R-NY 24)
• Michael R. Turner (R-OH 10)
• David Joyce (R-OH 14)
• Ryan A. Costello (R-PA 6)
• Patrick Meehan (R-PA 7)
• Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA 8)
• Charlie Dent (R-PA 15)
• Will Hurd (R-TX 23)
• Barbara Comstock (R-VA 10)
• Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA 3)
• Dave Reichert (R-WA 8)