CNN’s Grayer: Republicans Are So Divided on Many Key Issues on This Bill, Specifically Medicaid Cuts

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GRAYER: "So there are three Republican senators at leadership and Vance have been focusing on for the last three hours. When this vote started back at 730. Omar, when we first started talking about this. So the three senators who still haven‘t voted are Rick Scott of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming. And they have been going in and out of leader thune‘s office. The vice president has been in there at times, and we are seeing the pressure campaign on full display here, trying to get these last three Republicans on board so Republicans can take just their first step at advancing this critical piece of legislation that President Trump has been pushing for months now. But this vote has been open three hours. This is not how Republican leadership wanted this to go, but it just shows you how difficult this process has been because Republicans are so divided on so many of the key issues for this bill, specifically Medicaid cuts. That has been time and time again, the central question of how much to cut Medicaid. And it has sort of been like a game of whack a mole this whole time of when you try and please one group of Republicans by lessening cuts and you have another group of more right-wing Republicans, Republicans who want deeper spending cuts. So this has been the dynamic, and it‘s coming down to the wire as we wait to see if the arguments from the vice president, from leader thune and the leadership team are going to be enough, or if Republicans are going to deliver an embarrassing defeat to President Trump, we are standing by and waiting outside of. Our team is waiting outside of thune‘s office, trying to get an update here, but it‘s really been a slow moving couple hours here."