Gingrich to GOP: 'Get something done' on Obamacare repeal
Source: Politico
By LOUIS NELSON 07/18/2017 07:32 AM EDT
With Senate Republicans unable to find compromise on legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared Monday night that GOP lawmakers, whose party controls the White House and both houses of Congress, need to "perform."
“We’ve had six months of patience. It’s time to perform,” Gingrich told Fox News’s “Hannity” Monday night. “Frankly, about healthcare, (if) you can’t pass the gigantic bill, tell me what you can pass, but get something done that starts to move us away from Obamacare.”
The former speaker vented his frustration just hours after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced that his party would not move forward on a procedural vote on its repeal-and-replace legislation and would instead bring to the floor and vote on a so-called “clean repeal” bill that undoes the signature healthcare legislation of former President Barack Obama but does not replace it. Republicans in both the House and Senate passed a version of that legislation in 2015 that was vetoed by Obama.
News that Republicans had abandoned efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare simultaneously sent the value of the U.S. dollar tumbling Monday night into Tuesday morning. The dollar index, which measures the U.S. currency against a basket of foreign currencies, dropped to its lowest level since September 2016, CNN reported Tuesday. The dollar also weakened against the Euro, the British Pound and Japanese Yen.
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