Sep 29, 2017 ... Senate Republicans are proposing something that President Donald Trump  promised never to do: cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare, the ...  Even if they make it into the committee's proposal, they would have virtually no  chance of being enacted, as it would need to garner support from eight ...
Aug 28, 2009 ... With virtually no Republican support for the health care reform bill, some  Democrats believe they will have to go it alone. But Howard Dean, the former  chairman of the Democratic National Committee, isn't worried about the political  repercussions. When asked about the risks of abandoning efforts for a ...
6 days ago ... Now that the Senate has joined the House in passing versions of a bill to cut  taxes — with the support of virtually all Republicans and no Democrats ... More  broadly, the measure will cause either much larger deficits or large cuts to  Medicare and other federal programs, quite possibly accompanied by ...
Sep 6, 2012 ... False · Clyburn. When Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were created, " Republicans stood on the sidelines" ... The next day, the bill was passed in the  Senate, 77-6, with 16 Republicans supporting the legislation and only 5 voting  against it. ... No Republicans voted for the bill until it reached the floor.
Sep 25, 2017 ... Despite almost no analysis of what their latest bill would do, Senate Republicans  are pushing ahead with plans to vote this week. ... The legislation creating  Medicare, for example, which was signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965,  was first introduced eight years earlier and studied and debated ...
Medicare passed with virtually no Republican support.