This week needs to take a chill pill.
Seventeen House Republicans voted with the Democrats to pass legislation to restore the Obamacare subsidies.
The final vote was 230-196.
We have:
Five people did not vote, all Republicans:
In all fairness, regarding Baird, he’s recovering after a horrible car accident in Indiana.
The legislation reached the floor because last month, four Republicans signed Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition, which needed 218 signatures.
Yes, those four men voted to pass the legislation today.
However, the bill is likely dead on arrival in the Senate.
According to Politico, some of the Republicans hope the Senate could utilize the legislation to develop a bipartisan agreement.
“The Senate could put together a product that could ultimately get sent back over to the House that we can then conference on and hopefully move across the finish line,” said Bresnahan.
The Hyde Amendment was always viewed as a roadblock for a bipartisan agreement.
That might have ended, though, after President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers to be “flexible” on the amendment, which limits federal funds for abortion.
“You have to be a little flexible on Hyde, you know that,” Trump said on Tuesday. “You gotta be a little flexible. You gotta work something … we’re all big fans of everything. But you have to have flexibility.”
We’ll see how pro-life the senators who claim they will always protect life inside the womb.
Will they run with Trump’s blessing? There’s no flexibility when it comes to life, in and out of the womb.
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