Jonathan Cohn

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Before the Memorial Day weekend, everyone wants to go away, get back to their congressional, go back to their districts.

And there are certain procedural steps they have to go through before a vote comes to the floor.

So getting it done as soon as possible keeps that timeline going.

That's explanation number one.

Explanation number two is if you have a vote you want to take and you don't want people to be paying a lot of attention to it,

You put it at one in the morning.

And so maybe that, you know, maybe they don't want people watching too closely what they're going to do.

The most simplest.

Yeah.

The simplest explanation is the right one.

Yep.

hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, insurance for millions of people.

The Republicans have indicated for several months that they were going to do something like this, but they were very kind of vague about it.

Well, maybe we'll cut it this way.

Maybe we'll cut it that way.

Sometimes they made a really big point about saying, well, we're not gonna cut it in a way that's gonna hurt people.

And of course, President Trump made a very ironclad statement.

We're not gonna touch Medicaid.

So this is all in the air.

And here we are.

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