By now, we know that Republicans in the Senate are having a tough time coming to agreement on a health care bill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took the drastic step this week of cancelling at least the first two weeks of the August recess in order to give them […] Read more »
Should Republicans Even Want The Senate Health Care Bill To Pass?
We don’t know if the Republican health care bill will pass the Senate. It’s struggling right now, but remember that the House’s health care bill seemed dead too, before it was revived and approved. One question we have a better chance of answering is whether the elected officials directly involved […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: 27% favor Senate GOP health care plan, as vote gets delayed
By two-to-one, American voters oppose the Senate health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act — even as a majority wants to repeal at least some of the existing law. That’s according to the latest Fox News Poll, conducted Sunday through Tuesday evenings. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »
What’s Less Popular Than Donald Trump? Pretty Much Everything Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell Are Doing.
For all the extensive legal jeopardy Donald Trump already faces in his very young presidency, it is striking that the greatest source of political jeopardy for both him and his party is not his possible Nixon-esque crimes but his Paul Ryan–esque health-care plan. … To think of Trump’s scandals and […] Read more »
Expectations plummet for health care overhaul
Three months ago, just before Donald Trump took office, about half of Americans said it was very likely that the new President, armed with a Republican majority in both houses of Congress, would repeal and replace the law known as Obamacare. Now, after multiple unsuccessful efforts to fulfill that campaign […] Read more »
Less Than a Third Have Positive Image of McConnell, Schumer
As the possibility of a government shutdown looms, fewer than one in three Americans view either party’s U.S. Senate leader favorably. About four in 10 Americans have an unfavorable view of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (44%) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (36%). CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »