Donald Trump blames Democrats after pulling healthcare bill from Congress vote

He said: “We will end up with a truly great healthcare bill in the future”.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is launching its first ad campaign of the 2018 election cycle Monday, targeting 14 Republicans who voted for earlier versions of the bill in House committees. Why not insist on a more populist bill from the beginning? At the beginning of the day, Trump told Republicans to vote on the bill Friday or he would leave the ACA intact and move on to other legislation.

“After seven long years of Republicans promising to repeal and replace ObamaCare, not getting the job done is unacceptable”, said Hannity, a longtime backer of Trump. The White House’s disinterest in the substance is palpable, though. “Do not worry!” Trump tweeted.

“If they bring this to the floor and it doesn’t get to 216 quickly, the momentum could go in the other direction and they could come way short”, he said.

The replacement bill, the American Health Care Act, fell victim to two competing groups of Republicans.

“I like Speaker Ryan”. He said his next priority will be tax reform. There was a procedural logic to it too.

After the stinging defeat of the GOP’s bill to reform Obamacare, the White House and Congress were left reeling amid finger-pointing over who shouldered the blame.

On tax reform, Goldman Sachs said preliminary discussions could begin soon and legislation was likely to be enacted within the next year.

Although the American Health Care Act never reached the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has repeatedly expressed optimism Obamacare will be successfully repealed. “If Republicans truly want to improve our healthcare system, they should work with Democrats to make the necessary adjustments to existing law”. Those services include hospitalization, ambulance services, maternity care, pediatric services, mental health and substance abuse treatment, prescription drugs, rehabilitative care and laboratory services.

Democrats continue to hammer Republicans over a health care overhaul that’s projected to set in motion steep drops in insurance enrollment nationwide.

A handful of moderate Republicans – Reps.

Representative Charlie Dent, a Republican from Pennsylvania who is considered to be another moderate, said he remains unsure how he will vote – even after meeting with Trump. How they vote, then, may depend on how the Freedom Caucus votes. So it was surprising on Friday when the Washington Post’s Robert Costa reported that the president had sounded businesslike, not angry, when he called to say he’d pulled the vote on his GOP health care bill. According to a Quinnipiac poll released on Thursday, only 17 percent of Americans supported the bill. Politico reports that Trump singled out Meadows in front of his fellow politicians, joking that he’d “come after” him if he didn’t vote yes, and then said, “I think Mark Meadows will get on board”.

Donald Trump has addressed the failure of the Republican Party’s healthcare bill in Congress by saying “Obamacare will explode” and “cease to exist”.

Trump seemed shocked – shocked – at the partisanship that played out on this bill. At least House Speaker Paul Ryan, when it was over, didn’t try to act as if somehow the fight had gotten stolen from him. “Tomorrow we will see that”.

Things aren’t about to get easier for the Trump administration.

“Moving from an opposition part to a governing party comes with growing pains”, Ryan said, noting the GOP is feeling them today.

Trump had thrown his full political weight behind the measure, spending days arm-twisting recalcitrant Republicans, and he declared himself “disappointed” and a “little surprised” by the defeat.