A six-year-old promise on the part of the Republicans is coming due now that there will be a unified government. Mitch McConnell says his Senate will deliver.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell signaled the Senate would move swiftly to repeal Obamacare now that the GOP Congress will have a Republican president next year.
"It's pretty high on our agenda as you know," the Kentucky Republican said on Wednesday. "I would be shocked if we didn't move forward and keep our commitment to the American people."
Without a 60-vote majority, it's not clear how he's going to do that, unless he decided to do that thing he's been screaming about Harry Reid having done for nominations—nuke the filibuster. But one thing that he's never lost sleep over is being a hypocrite, so expect him to move to toss it. It will be interesting to see if the NeverTrumpers in the conference are willing to go along with that, though. Mike Lee, Ben Sasse, and Lindsey Graham would all be enough to derail that.
The other part of it is how Republicans actually deal with the reality of taking health insurance away from 20 million people and having no adequate replacement plan, certainly not one that will keep all of the current Obamacare customers covered. That's not going to be a popular among those 20 million—some who were undoubtedly Trump voters—when they get bupkis in return.