CBO Score Still Missing, Vote Will Be Delayed

The House can't vote until a certain number of hours has passed since the CBO score was received, and it looks like the earliest the CBO will report will be Thursday:

House Democratic leaders on Wednesday night said the long-awaited Congressional Budget Office score of the reconciliation bill will not come out until Thursday, forcing an acknowledgement that a Saturday healthcare vote is likely off the table.

But leaders are still hoping for a score on Thursday, and are still preparing for a possible vote before the end of the weekend.

The release of a CBO score on Thursday – triggering the Democrats' 72-hour clock – would mean that voting on the reconciliation bill would “most likely happen on Sunday, if that scenario plays out,” Assistant to the Speaker Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told reporters after leaving Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) office Wednesday night.
Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.), leaving that same meeting, said that the delay is the result of numerous technical issues involved, and stressed that, despite any rumors to the contrary, the delays are not the result of policy problems.

“My understanding is this has been much more technical than substantive,” Andrews said. “It’s not like what tax has to go or what spending has to go.”

I'm not so sure about that. Earlier today there was a report that the CBO score had been revealed to a few congressmen and it had come in over the magic $1 trillion figure, and now they're scrambling to rework the bill to try and get the number down. If they CBO score comes in that high it will give some undecided congressmen a reason to vote against it. A lower number could have the opposite effect.

A lot is riding on his CBO score.