This is wrong. Trump pressured Ryan & McConnell to wait until a replacement was on the table rather than ram through a straight repeal on Day One.
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One caveat: I think we have to acknowledge that Obama had to lead with healthcare if he was going to get it done. It’s not like Clinton where you can say gee he should have led with welfare reform & built the political capital to do healthcare.
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Partly true and also true of ACA repeal, but depends what he wanted. I still say the shrewd move would have been to start with populist FinReg reform and pursue a less ambitious health care plan that just did Medicaid expansion.
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Stabbed in the back by McCain.
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Yeah...Congressional Repub leadership prioritizing tax cuts and pushing immigration and infrastructure back (with the idea that they could be part of a grand bargain) might have played a role, too...
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