House conservatives are intensifying pressure to vote quickly on a bill repealing much of Obamacare.
Leaders of the Freedom Caucus are asking House leadership to hold a vote “as soon as possible” on a repeal bill Congress passed last year that would eliminate the biggest parts of the law including its mandates, taxes, subsidies and Medicaid expansion.
“There’s no reason we should put anything less on President Trump’s desk than we put on President Obama’s now that we know it will be signed into law,” Reps. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Jim Jordan, R-Oh., said in a statement.
The Freedom Caucus leaders said Americans expect Republicans to repeal the law quickly, as Trump had promised during his campaign.
But GOP leaders have stressed that they won’t repeal the healthcare law without a transition period, and they’re struggling to build consensus among rank-and-file for how to replace it.
Conservative groups including the Heritage Foundation are ramping up pressure to repeal the law quickly instead of waiting to hash out a replacement. But a number of Senate Republicans have stressed that repeal and replace must be done at the same time.
