John McCain sinks 'skinny repeal' of Obamacare health act Read moreBut early Friday morning, three Republican senators – Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and John McCain – abandoned their party and upset the math. One peer, the former Michigan congressman John Dingell, called McCain “tough as $2 steak”, an unintentional harbinger of things to come. “So great that John McCain is coming back to vote. Alongside Murkowski and Collins, McCain cast the decisive vote to sink the Republican healthcare effort, giving the bill a dramatic thumbs down as he said no on the Senate floor. When she joined Collins to vote against bringing the skinny repeal to the floor, Trump attacked on Twitter.

Source: The Guardian July 28, 2017 17:10 UTC