“Right now they don’t have my vote and I don’t think they have Mike Lee’s either,” Cruz said during an appearance at the annual Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says that he and a fellow conservative senator are inclined to oppose a new bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, making it even less likely that Senate Republican leaders will find the votes to get the proposal through the chamber. And Republicans, who have only 52 seats, would appear to be several votes short. Republican leaders are desperate to fulfill their oft-repeated campaign promise to repeal Obamacare, in part to satisfy their donors. But even before Cruz signaled his possible opposition ― and Lee’s ― a handful of other GOP senators either had come out against the repeal bill or were on the verge of doing so.

Source: Huffington Post September 24, 2017 17:41 UTC