That’s it, that’s cancelled! Republicans have decided to move on to other issues and will be leaving ObamaCare as is.
According to USA Today, House speaker Paul Ryan decided to cancel the vote on the GOP bill which would replace Obamacare because he did not have enough votes from his own Republican party to pass the legislation. This news comes after it was revealed 30-40 Republicans were going to shut down the legislation at the vote, initially scheduled for Thursday. The bill has officially been pulled from the House floor.
“We came really close today, but we came up short,” Ryan said at a press conference. “I will not sugarcoat this: this is a disappointing day for us. Doing big things is hard.”
“Obamacare is the law of the land,” Ryan continued. “It’s going to remain the law of the land.”
The House will now go on to concern themselves with tax reform, border control and other issues.
Some are blaming Trump’s inability to close the deal on the new healthcare bill failing.
“They can’t write policy that actually makes sense, they can’t implement the policies they do manage to write, they can’t get their stories straight, and today we’ve learned that they can’t close a deal, and they can’t count votes,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, (D) New York, said. “So much for the Art of the Deal.”
Just a week ago, Donald Trump took to Twitter to criticize #Obamacare, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act.
“ObamaCare is imploding,” Trump tweeted. “It is a disaster and 2017 will be the worst year yet, by far! Republicans will come together and save the day.”
I guess that wasn’t the case.
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