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By HEATHER CAYGLE and ELANA SCHOR 03/22/17 05:14 AM EDT
House Democrats have a new plan to tank Paul Ryans Obamacare repeal: Get out of the way.
Democratic leaders in the House know theyre powerless to stop the GOPs health care bill. So instead, with a repeal vote looming Thursday, theyre executing a strategic retreat.
After previously deploying a bevy of procedural tactics to delay the bill from reaching the House floor, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her caucus are shifting strategies and hoping that Republicans will run their beleaguered plan aground on their own.
Republicans now are dealing with the fact that theyve built a castle on a foundation of lies, Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), who chairs the moderate New Democrat Coalition in the House, said in an interview. The last thing we would want to do is get in their way.
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(58,670 posts)delaying successfully gives the Repubs an out. "They wouldn't let us pass it!"
Let them hang themselves on their own legislation.
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(61,695 posts)No reason to let them move on to tax reform.