(Jordyn Phelps & Adam Kelsey, ABC News) – After he spent weeks supporting and lobbying for a Republican-backed health care plan that ultimately collapsed last Friday, President Donald Trump told a gathering of U.S. senators Tuesday night that they were “going to make a deal on health care.”
Trump repeatedly promised an immediate “repeal and replace” of the Affordable Care Act throughout his presidential campaign. When the American Health Care Act was pulled last week from a scheduled vote and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said the ACA would remain the “law of the land,” the president then claimed that he preferred for the law known as “Obamacare” to “implode” and “explode” on its own anyway.
When Trump broached the topic Tuesday at a White House reception for senators and their spouses, calling a “deal on health care” “such an easy one” and saying he has “no doubt that that’s going to happen very quickly,” some in the room laughed before the president continued.
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