Mitch McConnell may no longer be the Senate majority leader, but he does not lack for influence in the chamber’s caucus.
In a private meeting Tuesday amid Republicans’ scramble to pass their budget reconciliation bill, McConnell tried to assuage the fears of senators facing blowback.
But something tells me this one isn’t going to be forgotten — and other Republican lawmakers don’t share McConnell’s confidence.
We could see a wave of rural hospital closures in a system that already struggles to serve many of its most vulnerable people.
If this bill passes — in the House version, the Senate version or something in between — the fallout will be devastating.
Perhaps McConnell is right that voters will “get over it.”
But perhaps enough voters will be extremely angry — and will remember who was responsible. »
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