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Here's How Much Pizza the Senate Ate While Voting Away Your Health Insurance

Your grandma may no longer be able to afford her life-saving medication, but at least she can keep herself content with the knowledge that Ted Cruz got to party down with a whole bunch of pepperoni pizza.
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Earlier this week, Senate passed a budget resolution that would effectively allow Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act—all without the need for a single Democrat vote. And as it turns out, you can work up a mighty fine appetite while building a pyre upon which to sacrifice the health care of 30 million Americans.

Talk about hangry! Those old white dudes in the Senate needed some sustenance as they set about revoking what has long been colloquially known as Obamacare.

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Bye bye, protections for those with pre-existing conditions! See ya, birth control reimbursements!

Now, let's eat.

TMZ reports that during the all-night fiesta that began the end of the ACA, our elected officials got restless and ordered in some pizza. Like, a lot of pizza—and a couple hundred wings to snack on, too. The stuff was allegedly delivered to the Capitol by Top Chef alum Spike Mendelsohn's DC pizza joint, We, The Pizza. TMZ says a source told them that the Senate spent more than $5,000 on deliveries that night.

When MUNCHIES reached out to We, The Pizza to confirm the massive order and find out what types of pizza this group of Republicans chose to nosh on, a representative told us, "Because of all our customers on Capitol Hill, we have a policy to not comment specifically on any orders."

As for the 30 million people who will be left without health insurance when the Senate gets to throw themselves the most bitchin' pizza party to ever grace DC? Although Paul Ryan has said that the Affordable Care Act will be replaced with "something better," those Americans' future hangs in the balance.

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Your grandma may no longer be able to afford her life-saving medication, but at the very least she can keep herself content with the knowledge that Ted Cruz got to party down with a whole bunch of pepperoni pizza.

All we can say is that pizza will never taste the same again.