Trump Will Keep Obamacare If His Healthcare Bill Fails–which It Did

Republican lawmakers, seeing that they don’t have the votes, postponed voting on President Trump’s healthcare bill, which was supposed to happen on Thursday. But the president is demanding a vote on Friday.

Not only that, Trump says that if his “repeal and replace” bill fails, he will just leave Obamacare as the law of the land.

UPDATE: Lacking the votes to pass it, the Republican leadership pulled the bill. Speaker Paul Ryan said that we will just have to live with Obamacare. President Trump blamed the Democrats, all of whom voted against his American Health Care Act, saying that we will just have to watch Obamacare “explode.”

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From Scott Wong, Trump threatens to leave ObamaCare in place if repeal bill fails | TheHill:

President Trump warned House Republicans on Thursday that he will leave ObamaCare in place unless they approve legislation to repeal and replace it.

Trump officials meeting with the House GOP conference said Trump is done negotiating over the legislation, which was set to come up for a vote Thursday but was delayed.

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, a former member of the House Freedom Caucus that has been negotiating with Trump, told the GOP conference that Trump wants a vote on Friday during a dramatic closed-door meeting, according to a GOP source in the room.

If the vote fails, Trump will move on to other priorities and ObamaCare will stay as the law of the land, Mulvaney said.The developments set up a likely vote on the measure Friday afternoon.

Dozens of Republicans have vowed to oppose the bill, putting them into a direct confrontation with their president.

With all of the House’s Democrats expected to vote against the bill, the GOP can only afford 22 defections.

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