While popular vote loser Donald Trump continues his feud (so far mostly one-sided) with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over Obamacare repeal, he's finding the likeliest set of allies ever: the House Freedom Caucus maniacs. McConnell seems pretty much resigned to the fact that he's not going to be able to get the 50 Republican votes he needs to repeal Obamacare, and he sure as hell isn't going to get any Democrats to help, but Trump remains insistent. But reality has never mattered much to the maniacs.
Hard-line conservatives are trying to force a fresh House vote this fall on erasing much of President Barack Obama’s health care law without an immediate replacement.
The effort by the House Freedom Caucus seems to have little chance of passing Congress.
But it could give conservatives a chance to call attention to Republican lawmakers who’ve pledged over the years to tear down Obama’s law but haven’t voted to do so with Donald Trump in the White House.
They're doing it with a discharge petition, which requires that they get 218 signatures—a majority of the House—to sign on. It is pretty damned unlikely to happen, and will probably only result in Trump now finding an excuse to start attacking House Republican leadership, too, if they fail to champion the cause. But it is helpful, because it's just one more volley in the Republican civil war that is going to bring them down in 2018.
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