Senate Republicans will try to advance a stalled healthcare reform bill next week while the House takes up the first group of fiscal 2018 spending bills, funding for a southern border wall and a measure to roll back an Obama-era banking rule.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., hopes to hold a vote next week on the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Republican-authored proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare. Because several moderate and conservative GOP holdouts are refusing to sign on to the bill, McConnell is threatening a politically unattractive alternative: a vote on simply repealing Obamacare, which most of the GOP supported in 2015 when a veto was assured from former President Barack Obama. Several Republican lawmakers are unsure about a plain repeal now.
