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The third time was certainly not charmed for popular vote loser Donald Trump's demand that Obamcare be repealed in his first 100 days. For the third time his Republican colleagues in the House failed. After an insane few days of pretending that a bill that has been made even worse than the one House Speaker Paul Ryan had to pull from the floor in March would come to the floor Friday, while Congress also has just hours to keep government funds flowing, they threw in the towel. And then pretended like it was no big deal.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) confirmed Thursday night that GOP leadership will not bring a revised ObamaCare repeal bill to the floor this week. […]
"We are not voting on healthcare tomorrow or Saturday," McCarthy told reporters after a nearly two-hour leadership meeting in Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) office in the Capitol.
McCarthy downplayed the healthcare development, saying leaders had been discussing the short-term stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown.
Oh no, after a full day of whipping members on the bill (chronicled by HuffPost's Matt Fuller on Twitter) leadership wasn't even thinking about having a vote on Zombie Trumpcare. They weren't having an eleventh hour meeting to try to round up and strong-arm votes.
It'll be back. They don't have the votes now but they'll keep trying, possibly as soon as next week. So we keep calling.
House Republicans are hell-bent on ripping away our health insurance. Call your member of Congress at 202-224-3121, and demand they vote NO on a renewed Trumpcare that is worse than the one before. Remind them they work for you.