After five years and dozens of attempts, Republicans are set to send a bill to President Obama’s desk to roll back his signature health care law.
The House is expected to pass Wednesday afternoon a measure that repeals elements of the Affordable Care Act and denies Planned Parenthood federal funds -– directing them instead to community health centers -– two policy priorities Republicans have struggled to move through Congress.
President Obama is expected to issue his sixth veto on the measure, which passed through the Senate in December. Still, Republicans say they are forcing the president to defend his policies.
“We are confronting the president with the hard, honest truth,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, said in a news conference Wednesday. “Obamacare is not successful … and the American people deserve better.”
Ryan promised last year that Republicans would put forward a GOP-alternative to Obamacare in 2016. Asked today about the status of that plan, Ryan said “just wait.”
The Wisconsin Republican also said the GOP needs to elect a Republican president to fully dismantle Obamacare -– though some hardliners in his conference want to see him use the appropriations process to challenge the health care law and Planned Parenthood funding.
“We shouldn’t walk away from a fight, that’s what [Donald] Trump has proven,” said Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kansas, a member of the House Freedom Caucus. “People want us to step up for what we believe.”
Republicans were able to move this most recent Obamacare repeal bill through Congress after 60-plus attempts by using the budget reconciliation process, which lowered the threshold for passage in the Senate to 51 votes, denying Democrats the ability to filibuster.
Democrats used budget reconciliation to pass the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
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