(Melina Mara/The Washington Post)Let me briefly try to answer this question: How did Republicans fail to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act? It didn’t mean you understood it, beyond maybe getting that it was a government program and thus paid for by taxes. — The one policy Republicans get is tax cuts, and little else motivates/interests them. This is a variant on the previous entry, but it meant that a real motivation for the repeal was cutting about $1 trillion in taxes, including two ACA taxes paid mostly by the wealthiest Americans. When I worked for Obama during his first administration, I vividly recall two challenges in moving legislation: Republicans and Democrats.

Source: Washington Post March 24, 2017 22:20 UTC