Trump Enters Obamacare Fray as Conservatives Savage GOP Plan
- Multiple GOP groups decry plan as falling short of repeal
- Trump says he is ‘proud’ to support Speaker Ryan’s bill
House Sets Date to Advance Health Care Act to Senate
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President Donald Trump threw his weight behind a House Republican plan to replace Obamacare, even as conservatives mounted their own savage attack on the bill, with one Republican senator declaring it “dead on arrival” in the Senate.
Trump held a White House meeting Tuesday with the House Republican vote-counting team to rally them behind the bill, setting up an unexpectedly close alliance between the president and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who defended his bill as the fulfillment of a long-running GOP promise.