The GOP Is Still Trying to Repeal Obamacare
Republicans tried to repeal the health care law the last time Trump was in office. Their 2025 budget bill does too (if you know where to look).
Hoping voters don’t notice.
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For decades, politicians in both parties have operated on the belief that Social Security is the third rail of American politics, dangerous if not fatal to touch. Since the 1990s, Medicare has seemed equally inviolate. The budget bill Republicans are hoping to bring to the Senate floor this week will test whether Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act now also belong on that list.
Republicans have long sought to repeal the Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, and retrench Medicaid, a joint federal-state partnership created by the Great Society Congress in 1965 to provide health insurance to the poor.