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White House to Senate: Pass health bill now or else
Donald Trump
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July 30, 2017

White House to Senate: Pass health bill now or else

WASHINGTON, USA (AP) — The White House stepped up demands yesterday for revived congressional efforts on health care and suggested senators cancel their entire summer break, if needed, to pass legislation after failed votes last week.

Aides said President Donald Trump is prepared in the coming days to end required payments to insurers, under the Affordable Care Act, as part of a bid to let “Obamacare implode” and force the Senate to act.

It was all part of a weekend flurry of Trump tweets and other statements insisting the seven-year GOP quest to repeal former President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement was not over.

“The president will not accept those who said it’s, quote, ‘Time to move on,’ “ White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said. Those were the words used by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) after the early Friday morning defeat of the GOP proposal.

Conway said Trump was deciding whether to act on his threat to end cost sharing reduction payments, which are aimed at trimming out of pocket costs for lower-income people. “He’s going to make that decision this week, and that’s a decision that only he can make,” Conway said.

Republicans hold a 52-48 majority in the Senate, where no Democrats voted for the GOP Bill and three Republicans defected in the final vote Friday. One of the GOP defectors, Senator John McCain, has since returned to Arizona for treatment for brain cancer.

“Don’t give up Republican senators, the world is watching: Repeal & Replace,” Trump said in a tweet.

White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, when asked yesterday if no other legislative business should be taken up until the Senate acts again on health care, responded “yes”.

While the House has begun a five-week recess, the Senate is scheduled to work two more weeks before a summer break. McConnell has said the unfinished business includes addressing a backlog of executive and judicial nominations, coming ahead of a busy agenda in September, which involves passing a defence spending bill and raising the Government’s borrowing limit.

“In the White House’s view, they can’t move on in the Senate,” Mulvaney said, referring to health legislation. “They need to stay, they need to work, they need to pass something.”

Trump warned over the weekend that he would end federal subsidies on health care insurance for Congress and the rest of the country if the Senate did not act soon. He was referring in part to a federal contribution for lawmakers and their staff, who were moved onto Obamacare insurance exchanges as part of the 2010 law.

“If a new Health Care Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for members of congress will end very soon!” Trump tweeted.

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