(Fox News) Taking a first step toward repealing and replacing ObamaCare, Congress on Friday approved a budget framework that would smooth the way for an eventual vote on dismantling the outgoing president’s signature health care law.
The House voted 227-198 for the measure, following a vote in the Senate earlier this week.
The framework does not directly deal with repealing the Affordable Care Act. Rather, it would prevent Democrats from using a Senate filibuster to derail a future bill nixing and replacing the health law. That’s critical because it takes 60 votes to end filibusters, and Republicans have only a 52-48 Senate majority.
The budget, which does not need the president’s signature, was considered a critical step for majority Republicans in their bid to work with the incoming Donald Trump administration in fulfilling vows to replace the health care law.
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