For years now, the Republican party has promised to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. Now that voters have delivered Republicans control of the White House and Congress and they can make good on that promise, suddenly they are singing a different, decidedly off-key, tune: “Repeal and delay.”

The plan is to effectively repeal Obamacare through the budgetary process known as “reconciliation.” But after campaigning hard against the law for six years, some Republican leaders are now hedging their bets about what to do next with health care. “We’re talking about a three-year transition now that we actually have a president who’s likely to sign the repeal into the law,” Senate majority whip John Cornyn said earlier this month. “People are being understandably cautious, to make sure nobody’s dropped through the cracks.”