{"id":19448,"date":"2019-04-02T20:40:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T20:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2019\/04\/02\/trump-backs-off-obamacare-replacement-after-top-gop-leader-nixes-the-idea\/"},"modified":"2019-04-02T20:40:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T20:40:42","slug":"trump-backs-off-obamacare-replacement-after-top-gop-leader-nixes-the-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/trump-backs-off-obamacare-replacement-after-top-gop-leader-nixes-the-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Backs Off Obamacare Replacement After Top GOP Leader Nixes The Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Trump, bowing to political reality, says he is putting off his thoughts of finding a replacement for the Affordable Care Act until after the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

In remarks to reporters Tuesday, Trump said, “I wanted to put it after the election because we don’t have the House.” But it became clear that he didn’t have support for a replacement to Obamacare in the GOP-led Senate, either.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he “made it clear to [Trump] that we were not going to be doing that in the Senate.” Asked whether there were differences between him and Trump on the issue, McConnell replied succinctly, “Not any longer.”<\/p>\n

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McConnell recounted that he had a “good conversation” with the president on Monday and pointed out “the Senate Republicans’ view” that working on comprehensive health care legislation with a Democratic House was not something his party planned to do.<\/p>\n

Trump surprised Republicans last week when he said he was going to make the GOP “the party of health care” and would revisit the issue that has frustrated Republicans and helped deliver the House to Democrats in the 2018 midterm election.<\/p>\n