Donald Trump and Paul Ryan have officially pulled The American Health Care Act from consideration after it became clear that the bill would not pass. Now, the president is looking forward and considering the ramifications of the failure.
House Republican leaders decided to pull their Obamacare replacement bill at the last minute at the request of President Donald Trump — capping a rocky series of weeks since the controversial measure was introduced and an order from the president for legislators to put their cards on the table today.
A GOP aide tells ABC News that Trump called Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at 3 p.m. to tell him to pull the bill. The next House votes are scheduled for Monday, so no further votes are expected in the House for the day or the week.
“We've got to do better and we will,” Ryan said at a hastily arranged press conference this afternoon. “This is a setback no two ways about it,” but GOP leadership is emerging from the day “motivated to step up our game and deliver our promises.”
Ryan said they pulled the bill because they couldn't get enough “yes” votes for the bill to succeed on the floor. He said “I'm really proud of the bill we produced,” but later in his speech called it a “fundamentally flawed” piece of legislation.
“Obamacare is the law of the land,” Ryan said. It's going to remain the law of the land until it's replaced… And, so, yeah, we're going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.”
The Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, has been in effect since President Obama signed it in 2010. Republicans have vowed to get rid of the bill since then.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called today's developments a “victory for the American people.”
Trump blamed the failure on the Democrats, and said in a press conference that they will come to him when Obamacare “explodes.”
“It's imploding and soon will explode and it's not going to be pretty,” Trump said.
The Obamacare implosion is no doubt inevitable, but without Democratic support, a full repeal is highly unlikely. Will the Democrats finally admit that their health care experiment is a failure and work with Trump? Probably not. But if Obamacare fails completely, the Senate may soon have enough Republican members to proceed without any Democrats at all.
Source: ABC News
Too bad both parties don’t know how to play together. We are heading for a constitutional crisis. This is why the people voted for Trump. Drain the swamp .
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RYAN made SURE it didn’t Pass! RYAN Is a SNAKE & a RINO!!!
Maybe give insurance back to free market and keep government out of the insurance business
Smart move!
Ryancare not Trumpcare
Ryan sabotaged the plan by including healthcare for illegal aliens. Why should American taxpayers pay for non Americans healthcare ? No, we’re not doing that anymore.
Ryan added gun control database edicts from physicians, hospitals, etc…. no, we’re not accepting that.
Ryan raised premiums on low income and Senior citizens to pay for younger peoples healthcare. No, we’re not doing that.
Ryan cut Medicare, no, we’re not accepting that.
It’s Obamacare reworded… no, we’re not doing that.
REMOVE AND REPLACE RYAN.
Amen
I like how so say he lost the vote! Well he actually did not! Obama Care is failing as we speak big time. And when it fails then that’s when Trump is going to act. This money from now until Obama care fails some will be contributed to Obama, witch is a lot of money. That’s what Congress and the media won’t tell you. Trump did the right thing by pulling out of this. So he is going to wait until it fails on it’s own. And I know for a fact that 90% of the American people do not want Obama Care.