Capito says the invoice’s deep Medicaid cuts could harm West Virginia amid a devastating drug abuse disaster.Shelley Moore Capito is the maximum famous flesh presser in a deep-purple country that loves President Donald Trump and distrusts large authorities. And but the West Virginia Republican is threatening to torpedo the GOP’s quality shot at dismantling Obamacare, one among Trump’s pinnacle domestic priorities.
The first-term senator has emerged as one of the staunchest holdouts in opposition to Senate Republicans’ bid to overtake the state’s health care machine, voicing worries approximately the invoice’s results for older Americans and rejecting rapid investment cuts for a Medicaid application that’s played a key function in fighting her state’s opioid epidemic.
Those objections, voiced with the aid of at the least a half of-dozen different moderate Republicans, foiled Senate leadership’s plans to hurry a repeal bill to a vote. And it’s left Majority Leader Mitch