Heller, who faces re-election in 2018 in the Democratic-leaning state, said on Friday: “I cannot support a piece of legislation that takes away insurance from tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Nevadans.”
A comparative moderate, Heller supports the expansion of Medicare that was included in the Affordable Care Act.
The Nevada senator joins four other Republicans in expressing opposition to the draft bill as it is currently written.
Amid the Senate's unpopular plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, as well as the continuing investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, President Donald Trump finds himself crawling his way out of historically low approval numbers for his presidency.
Trump’s approval numbers have struggled to level out after facing a historically low trajectory earlier this month. At the beginning of his presidency, Trump's approval ratings were around 40 to 45 percent, but earlier this month they were dipping below 40 percent in the days leading up to and following former FBI Director James Comey's testimony to a congressional hearing.
In the last week, Trump's approval numbers have crawled back to the low 40s even as more news surfaces about the ongoing investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Trump for obstruction of justice for firing Comey. Additionally, Trump has admitted that he didn't have tapes of conversations between himself and Comey in the White House after alluding to it in a Twitter posting.
Three polls of Trump's approval rating were taken this week: Rasmussen, Gallup, and SurveyMonkey. All three showed the president’s disapproval marks outweighing his approval marks, while his approval rating has reverted back to the low 40s.
