i feel we have the votes. i m almost certain we have the votes. but with one man in the hospital we cannot display that we have them. an hour or so after the president repeatedly claimed that a senator was in the hospital, senator thad cochran, who according to his hospital had recently been tweeted for a ur logical issue tweeted thanks for your well wishes. i am not in the hospital but i look forward to returning to work soon. trump was wrong to declare nine times today to declare that a republican vote was hospital lieszed. in an event in indianapolis this afternoon, the president stopped repeating one of the blatant false hoods. we have the votes on graham-caddgraham graham-cassidy. but with the rules of reconciliati reconciliation, we re up against a deadline of friday. two days. that s just two days.
homes, and it s a tough go. but we are -we are going to get it back. before we go on to discuss the largest tax cut in our country s history, i also want to provide a brief update on health care. we have the votes on graham/cassidy, but with the rules of reconciliation, we re up against a deadline of friday, two days. that s just two days, and yes vote senator, we have a wonderful senator, great, great senator who is a yes vote, but he s home recovering from a pretty tough situation, and with so many great features including all of the bloc granting, the money to the states, et cetera, et cetera, our health care plan is really going to be something
excellent. it s going to be better managed for the people that it serves. having local health tecare representatives is far better than having managed from washington, d.c. not even a contest. and many, many governors, as you also see, have agreed with us and approved it and really look forward to running it properly. but, again, because the reconciliation window is about to close, we have to wait a few months until it reopens, before we take a vote. so we re getting all of the good signs have alaska and the others to repeal and replace obamacare, and i hoped to come in and sign, but it didn t work that way. there were a couple of people that i won t say anything but early next year, when reconciliation kicks back in, in
any event, long before the november election, we re going to have a vote and we re going to be able to get that through, and i think we ll actually get through very easily and the time makes it easier, but speaking of reconciliati reconciliation, the republican senate needs to get rid of the filibuster rule, which is blocking so many great legislative reforms. the american people badly want and deserve. by the way, the democrats, if they had the opportunity, which po hopefully they won t for many, many years they would get rid of it on day one and most of you know exactly what i m talking about. we re hiere in indiana to delivr historic tax relief to the american people. [ cheers and applause ] this is a once in a
hits blue states hardest. two-thirds of those were paid for by states that hillary clinton won. the question is if you can get republican from those states to vote for it. it depends on the sensitivity of your constituency. we should be careful not to discount the police cal to t l potency of this. i think this says to me, as other evidence, it is going to be almost impossible for them to find offsets to make a truly revenue neutral tax cut that would offset all of the reductions they want to push through. that means you go back to page 1 of what republican control of government usually means, a tax cut, even if it has to be temporary to get within the reconciliati reconciliati reconciliation.