Paul Ryan insists Obamacare repeal’s not dead

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy was also optimistic, saying Republicans will follow through on their promise to repeal and replace the ACA.

House Republicans are gathering Tuesday to discuss their agenda, their first meeting since House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., suddenly abandoned plans last Friday for a vote on the GOP legislation. “It’s just that valuable, that important”.

The agency made encouraging predictions about the tax cuts and the deficit reduction in the President’s health-care plan, noting that it could save anywhere from $150 billion to $337 billion over the next 10 years. It relied on tax credits to help consumers purchase insurance that for many people would be less generous than under Obama’s statute. On Tuesday, he suggested Republicans weren’t giving up. The closed-door meeting lasted almost two hours, causing Ryan to delay his news conference.

That means Republicans, who control Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade, may have to vote as a bloc to pass the tax plan that investors would most want, something far less certain after the health care bill debacle.

“We were very close to getting to a yes, and then boom the deadline kicks in”, Rep. David Brat (R-VA) said, referring to the desire of leadership to pass the repeal bill on Obamacare’s seventh anniversary last week.

In a tweet on Sunday morning, Trump lashed out at both the Freedom Caucus and other conservatives, saying their actions had left “Democrats smiling in D.C”.

And with the Affordable Health Care Act now dead, it will be more hard for the commander in chief to achieve his next goal: a large tax cut.

On an afternoon call with donors to his Team Ryan political organization, he continued: “We’re not going to just all of a sudden abandon health care and move on to the rest”.

“There are some folks in the Republican House caucus who have yet to make the pivot from complaining to governing”, said Republican pollster Whit Ayres.

Now that the White House has changed hands, House GOP lawmakers are in the uncomfortable situation of suing Health Secretary Tom Price.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus scolded conservative Republicans, explaining that Trump had felt “disappointed” with a “number of people he thought were loyal to him that weren’t”.

The Freedom Caucus is a hard-right group of more than 30 Republican House of Representatives members who were largely responsible for blocking the bill to undo the Affordable Care Act dubbed “Obamacare”. After so many bad years they were ready for a win!’ he wrote Monday night.

A member of the House Freedom Caucus says he will force the House to vote on a full repeal of former President Barack Obama’s health care law in a month if the chamber hasn’t acted to roll back the statute.

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, likewise told the Associated Press that it was time for Congress to try a new legislative approach on health care.

The GOP holds just 52 seats in the Senate.

“I have no doubt that that’s going to happen very quickly”, Trump said at the bipartisan event.

“It will continue to be the opposition party in the party”, said Poe, who said he would have supported the measure.

Democrats may be open to it, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said only if repeal is off the table. “That’s not presidential”, he said, “that’s petulance”.

These payments to insurance companies reduce the deductibles and co-pays for more than 7 million low-income people on the Obamacare exchanges. The health-care exchanges are crashing, as major insurers leave. But Republicans must overcome internal differences on that issue too, including whether to impose taxes on imports to encourage manufacturers to produce products domestically and whether the measure should drive up deficits.