Wants unified GOP government, shifting course amid court battle
President Trump now says Republicans will vote on a “really great” health care plan after the next election, giving him space to campaign against Democrats’ plans for government-run options but raising questions about how he’d handle the fallout from a lawsuit that could dismantle Obamacare.
Mr. Trump says the GOP is developing a plan with lower premiums and deductibles than the Democrats’ 2010 health law. Those lofty pledges aren’t new, but in a series of late-night tweets, he suggested Republicans would wait until they had unified government to approve the plan.
“Vote will be taken right after the Election when Republicans hold the Senate & win back the House,” he wrote. “It will be truly great HealthCare that will work for America.”
Effectively, Mr. Trump is reviving the situation Republicans faced in 2017, when they beat the odds and took control of all levers of political power in Washington.
Attempts to replace Obamacare with something better fizzled out amid intra-party fights and mass protests, however.
For that reason, many in the GOP were taken aback by Mr. Trump’s decision to wade back into the Obamacare wars by refusing to defend any part of the law in a federal appeals court. A lower court ruled Congress’s changes to the “individual mandate” rendered the rest of the program unconstitutional.
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