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Republicans Don't Know How or When to Repeal Obamacare

In a debate Tuesday night, Senator Ted Cruz made it clear that nothing is happening yet.
Source: Cliff Owen / AP

It was a “day one” goal for the Trump administration to repeal Obamacare. Vice President Mike Pence said in early January that the “first order of business” was to repeal and replace Obamacare, and President Trump backed up his urgency with a storm of tweets urging Congress to act. House Speaker Paul Ryan said work on Obamacare was a “first priority” for the first session of Congress under Trump.

But does anyone know approximate timeline of when a repeal might happen that maybe the “process” of an Obamacare repeal might drag into next year, although Ryan later . The uncertainty around repeal was the central subject of a a televised CNN debate on Tuesday night between Senators Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders, where moderators and audience members asked Cruz the question early: What do Republicans have planned?

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