Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer accused Republicans of attacking the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the House GOP’s Obamacare replacement bill because they are already losing the support of a majority of voters, and their own caucus.
“Rather than going back to the drawing board to solve those problems, Republicans are attacking the CBO,” the New York Democrat told reporters Tuesday. “Republicans are attacking the referee because they are losing the game.”
Schumer said the CBO score showing that 24 million more people would be uninsured over the next 10 years as a result of the House GOP measure is a huge blow to Republicans that will only create more opposition to Republican’s Obamacare repeal and replace effort.
“Trumpcare has been public for one week now — is there anyone left in the country who actually likes it?” he asked. “Trump wants to call it Ryancare. Ryan wants to call it Trumpcare. How good can it be if neither one of them wants their name on it?”
Republicans point out that the lion’s share of the uninsured the CBO predicts comes in the first year as a result of people dropping their plans because they are no longer required to have one.
But Schumer said Trump puts his names on all of his products — ties, steaks, hotels and golf clubs — but not the bill.
