The clear and present danger of TrumpCare

This thing could totally pass

It could happen.
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In President Trump's America, you can't always keep a terrible idea down.

When the American Health Care Act was first withdrawn in March, House Speaker Paul Ryan said that "we're going to be living with ObamaCare for the foreseeable future." But liberal relief may have been premature. Without even the benefit of a score from the Congressional Budget Office, House Republicans are poised to hold a vote on Ryan's plan to take health insurance away from millions of people to pay for a massive upper-class tax cut. While passage is far from guaranteed, the House leadership would not be scheduling a vote if they weren't confident that they could get the votes necessary to pass it.

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Scott Lemieux

Scott Lemieux is a professor of political science at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y., with a focus on the Supreme Court and constitutional law. He is a frequent contributor to the American Prospect and blogs for Lawyers, Guns and Money.