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Trump Puts Pressure On McConnell: I'll Be 'Very Angry' If The Bill Doesn't Pass
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will be "very angry" if the Senate fails to pass a revamped Republican health care bill and said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell must "pull it off," intensifying pressure on party leaders laboring to win over unhappy GOP senators and preserve the teetering measure. (7/13)
The comments, coming in an interview at the White House with televangelist Pat Robertson of CBN News, intensified public pressure on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who plans to release a revised version of his health-care legislation Thursday morning. 鈥淚 am sitting in the Oval Office with a pen in hand, waiting for our senators to give it to me,鈥 Trump said. 鈥淚t has to get passed. They have to do it. They have to get together and get it done.鈥 (Sullivan, Wagner and Snell, 7/12)
Trump noted how often Republicans have touted repealing the landmark 2010 health care bill. 鈥淭hey鈥檝e been promising it for years. They鈥檝e been promising it ever since Obamacare which is failed,鈥 Trump said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a failed experiment. It is totally gone. It鈥檚 out of business and we have to get this done.鈥 (Tesfamichael, 7/12)
President Trump said he鈥檒l be 鈥渧ery angry鈥 if Senate Republicans aren鈥檛 able to pass a bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare, as GOP leaders get ready to unveil their updated legislation. Trump said Republicans have been promising for years that they鈥檇 repeal ObamaCare, and now with Republicans controlling Congress and the White House, he said he鈥檚 鈥渨aiting鈥 to sign a repeal bill. If Senate Republicans aren't able to聽pass their bill, known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act, he said that鈥檇 be 鈥渧ery bad.鈥 (Hagen, 7/12)
Vice President Mike Pence promoted a revamped Senate health care bill Wednesday, choosing the home turf of Kentucky's high-profile senators to "turn up the heat" on the struggling Republican effort to uproot former President Barack Obama's health care law. (Schreiner, 7/12)