There's a smart way to do some important social spending right now...and there's whatever Democrats are doing right now.
. Either way, there is a strong chance that the GOP will control at least one house of Congress by then. And given that most Republicans would rather walk over broken glass while being pelted with beer cans than vote to expand the ACA, it seems somewhat dicey that these reforms will last.Then there’s the child care program, which for several days now has been the subject of a complicated but raging debate aboutin the making.
But one reason it survived the GOP’s many assaults is that all of its main pieces were permanent. Despite having a trifecta, Republicans simply couldn’t repeal the law in 2017 because three of their senators—Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and John McCain—voted no. If the ACA had been scheduled to lapse, however, the party wouldn’t have needed 50 votes. Trump and co. could have just let it happen, and the dissenters wouldn’t have made a difference.
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