Trump Says No Vote On GOP Health Plan Until After The 2020 Election
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Trump Sees No Vote on GOP Health Plan Until After 2020 ElectionRepublicans are looking to craft alternative to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act
President Trump said any vote on a Republican health plan would take place after the 2020 election, moving to put off action on legislation amid uncertainty about what a GOP replacement for the Affordable Care Act would look like.
In a series of tweets late Monday, Mr. Trump said that the vote on a new health plan “will be taken right after the Election when Republicans hold the Senate & win back the House.”
Mr. Trump has been...
From the Left
Trump punts on health care until after the 2020 electionPresident Donald Trump on Monday night backed away from his push for a vote on an Obamacare replacent until after the 2020 elections, bowing to the political reality that major health care legislation cannot pass in the current Congress.
Trump's statements come a week after his administration announced that it now agreed with a judge's ruling that the entire Affordable Care Act should be scrapped. The opinion was a dramatic reversal from the administration's previous stance that only portions of the act could not be defended.
Trump's latest move allows...
From the Right
Trump floats Obamacare repeal vote after 2020 electionWants 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...
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