Shouldn’t leave town until this is complete: Trump urges Senate Republicans to pass healthcare bill
President Donald Trump pushed Senate Republicans on Wednesday to take another stab at repealing or overhauling Obamacare, calling all 52 Republican senators to the White House to urge them to keep their campaign promises and find a new healthcare approach.
“We’re close. We’re very close,” Trump said at the start of the lunch meeting, a day after the seven-year Republican quest to repeal and replace Democratic former President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law collapsed in the Senate. Trump urged senators to stay in Washington and not leave town for a planned August recess until they reach agreement on a healthcare plan that can pass Congress.
“For seven years you promised the American people you would repeal Obamacare. People are hurting and frankly inaction is not an option,” Trump told the senators. “We can repeal, but we should repeal and replace and we shouldn’t leave town until this is complete.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to go ahead with a vote early next week on a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, despite indications it will fail after the defections on Tuesday of at least three Republican senators. Moderate Republican senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of …read more
