Democrats may force government shutdown to pressure Republicans

New York Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke out on Wednesday about what changes to Medicare could do to seniors in his state and across the country.

Congressional Republicans have been focusing on reducing the corporate tax rate to 20%, while President-elect Trump’s plan is to reduce it to 15%.

President elect Donald Trump will be sworn in on January 20th and take office with Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate.

Democrats released a 117-page report on Monday, arguing that the GOP-led panel has pressed ahead with its investigation despite “no evidence of wrongdoing”. As that force began to coalesce into the Tea Party – a movement ostensibly devoted to the policy goal of smaller government but run through with racism and mad conspiracy theories – the Republican Party’s leaders decided that this was a tiger they could ride.

Spokeswoman AshLee Strong says in a statement that House and Senate conferees “were not able to come to agreement on various outstanding issues in time for the House to consider a conference report”. “I say to my Republican colleagues: Turn back, because we will fight you on this tooth and nail. We deserve the (low) ratings we get”, said Sen.

A spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan says efforts to approve the first major energy bill in almost a decade have run out of time. He instead sharply criticized Price’s views on Medicare, and said, “That’s all I’m going to say”.

Here’s why repealing and replacing Obamacare could be one of the messiest and ugliest political battles of 2017. But on both, Republicans in Congress are at odds with the ethos, if not the letter of Trump’s campaign promises to protect American mining and manufacturing. See the difference? Republicans build things and Democrats steal them or tear them down. Amash said GOP leaders should be more forthright when Trump proposes things that run counter to GOP beliefs. The Senate has rejected only nine of 719 Cabinet nominations in USA history, not counting nominees who have withdrawn when facing certain defeat, according to congressional records.

Senate Republicans said on Thursday they were confident of winning Cabinet confirmations early next year. He called the Georgia Republican “one of the most avowed enemies of Medicare in the country”. Before the election, vulnerable GOP incumbents Rob Portman of OH and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania had supported a broader bill to protect health care and pension benefits for about 120,000 retired coal miners.

Schumer and Sanders worry the new system could cost seniors more and leave more uninsured.

Medicare supporters dispute Ryan’s assertion that Obamacare is causing further deterioration of the program’s finances.

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is not shifting his position on how the financial assistance in an ObamaCare replacement would be structured, according to a spokeswoman, after questions were raised by his comments in a “60 Minutes” interview. In a January 2010 special election, voters in deep-blue MA went so far as to elect a Republican to fill the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Ryan acolyte who won her second term in Congress last month, is walking a fine line on Medicare. That move by Harry Reid was created to overcome Republican blockages of a number of majority-supported Obama nominations to the federal judiciary, a practice pioneered by – ta da!

GOP leaders are calculating that once the House wraps up work and departs Washington on Thursday, Senate objections to the two measures will fade. Chris Coons of DE, a Democrat who voted for the rules change three years ago.

In a private 90-minute meeting with Senate Republicans and Mike Pence, the two sides tried to downplay any disagreements. But two Senate Democrats, who have always been advocated for a more comprehensive plan, say the temporary provision isn’t enough.

Democrats could block the Ryan overhaul with three Republicans jumping ship. 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”.

Schumer and several of the other lawmakers expressed confidence that if Republicans took on Medicare it would be a replay of 2004 and 2005, when congressional Democrats defeated then-President George W. Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security.

“Repeal is easy. They know what to do”.