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Spending Bill, Not Obamacare, Reveals Deep GOP Division

By Byron York
Tuesday, May 09 2017

If you want to see what divides Republicans in Congress, don't look at the struggle to repeal and replace Obamacare. Look at spending. The House's narrow passage of a partial repeal of Obamacare dominated media for days. Happening at the same time, but receiving relatively little coverage, was the Senate's approval of a $1.1 trillion spending bill that revealed—far more than Obamacare—the deep differences among Republicans in both houses of Congress. The story is in the numbers. On Obamacare, 217 Republicans voted for partial repeal, while just 20—a little under 10 percent of…

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