White House predicts healthcare vote soon; lawmakers skeptical according to : KGMI

Trump and his aides have repeatedly called for a House vote in recent weeks, but lawmakers have so far failed to unite around a bill. As of Monday morning, no vote on a fresh version of the healthcare bill had been scheduled. On Sunday, he tweeted that a "new healthcare plan is on its way. Cohn told CBS he expects the plan to come to the House floor for a full vote, saying the White House was "convinced we've got the votes."Yet moderate Republican lawmakers and aides said they were skeptical that a vote could come together this week as lawmakers remained divided. Support from moderate Republicans will likely be needed to get the House of Representatives to the 216 votes it needs for passage.




"We are having those member-to-members conversations right now," Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chair of the House Republican conference, said on Fox News. In a separate interview, Cohn told CBS the White House was "convinced we've got the votes" in the House. House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan, in several television interviews on Monday, said he expected there would be enough House Republican votes to pass the bill this week. White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and White House economic adviser Gary Cohn on Monday predicted action to unwind former Democratic President Barack Obama's healthcare law would soon succeed. "We will schedule a vote when we have the needed votes," said AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan.

House GOP pushes back on White House claim that healthcare vote is imminent

House Republicans have cautioned that the Obamacare reform bill is still short of the 217 votes it will need to pass, even as the White House works to portray a vote on GOP healthcare legislation as imminent. But the Republican aide disputed that claim, noting a vote has not yet been scheduled because support for the Obamacare reform bill is still in flux. White House spokesman Sean Spicer added at his daily press briefing that there aren't enough votes. The White House declined to echo Cohn's optimism Monday. A top House Republican aide told the Washington Examiner that the White House's assertion earlier Monday that the bill was ready to be brought to the floor was "not helpful" to the process.


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