WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner on Wednesday did not give a firm “yes” or “no” when asked about his potential support for the GOP’s latest proposal to unwind the Affordable Care Act.

“I’m trying to get some more information on it,” Gardner said during a brief hallway interview outside a confirmation hearing for Colorado jurist Allison Eid. “(We are) looking into the numbers. We don’t have the numbers that we think we need to make a decision.”

Zach Gibson, Getty Images Senate Energy Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), left, speaks to Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee, left, before a Senate Energy Subcommittee hearing discussing cybersecurity threats to the U.S. electrical grid and technology advancements to maximize such threats on Capitol Hill on March 28, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Associated Press file In this July 13, 2017, file photo, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., left, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, talk while walking to a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Republicans are planning a final, uphill push to erase President Barack Obama's health care law. But Democrats and their allies are going all-out to stop the drive. The initial Republican effort crashed in July in the GOP-run Senate. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said after that defeat that he'd not revisit the issue without the votes to succeed. Graham and Cassidy are leading the new GOP charge and they'd transform much of Obama's law into block grants and let states decide how to spend the money.

Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images file Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) holds a news conference with fellow GOP senators at the U.S. Capitol July 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C.



Alex Brandon, The Associated Press Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to the media, accompanied by Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, in Washington.

Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana have presented a new approach to repeal the ACA — also known as Obamacare — that calls for undoing the Obama-era law’s individual insurance mandate. It would also give states block grants and thus broader authority on how to spend money to address their health care needs.

FWIW @SenCoryGardner took a similar tact during healthcare debate this summer before supporting every major GOP proposal. #copolitics — Mark K Matthews (@mkmatthews) September 20, 2017

Gardner, a Republican from Colorado, made similar comments before his votes this summer on every other major GOP health care bill attempting to undo Obamacare that came before the U.S. Senate. He supported all of those pieces of legislation.

The Graham-Cassidy proposal, as it has come to be known, is seen as the GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare. The Associated Press reports that Republican Senate leaders are urgently searching for votes in support of the effort, which much of the focus centralizing on U.S. Sen. John McCain, of Arizona.

McCain’s July “no” vote on another Republican health care bill killed the GOP’s last proposal to unwind Obamacare. That makes Gardner’s vote a must-have if Republican’s want the legislation to pass.

When asked about what specific information he would need to make a decision on Graham-Cassidy, Gardner said, “just additional information.”

“I’m confident that Washington isn’t the only place that has the answers – that we can look to the states for solutions,” Gardner said. “I have great confidence in the people of Colorado to come up with ideas as well.”

The legislation would end Medicaid expansion and Obamacare insurance-purchasing subsidies, as well as capping the federal government’s contribution to traditional Medicaid.

A report from the left-leaning Center on Budget Policy and Priorities found that Graham-Cassidy would shift money from states that expanded Medicaid to those that didn’t. For instance, the report concluded that Colorado, in 2026, would receive $823 million less in federal health care funding than under current law.

Gardner’s Democratic counterpart, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, has come out strongly against the Graham-Cassidy proposal — echoing much of the Senate’s Democratic caucus.

“I can’t decide whether this is Groundhog Day or the definition of insanity: Every attempt is worse than the last,” he said in a written statement Tuesday. “This latest version cuts nearly $1 billion in funding to Colorado, sets up a nonsensical cliff in coverage and puts patient protections at risk. The bipartisan process in our committee was making progress. Why would we abandon it now? This is exactly why Coloradans have lost so much faith in Washington.”

The AP reports that, if the bill does pass, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has committed to pushing it through the House as is, and straight to President Donald Trump’s desk.