House Republicans are waiting anxiously for a new financial estimate Wednesday on their Obamacare repeal proposal that could force them into an embarrassing do-over on the bill they barely passed early this month.

Speaker Paul Ryan says he is uncertain about the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office analysis of the measure’s budget impact -- critical for meeting Senate rules that would let the GOP pass it with a simple majority amid unanimous Democratic opposition.

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