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Trump Implores Republicans To Make Good On Their Years-Long Promise
President Trump spent Monday ratcheting up pressure on Republican senators to get onboard. Mr. Trump criticized their inaction and warned that they risked betraying seven yearsā worth of promises to raze and revamp the health law if they did not.āRemember ārepeal and replace,ā ārepeal and replaceā ā they kept saying it over and over again,ā Mr. Trump said at the White House, flanked by people who he said suffered as āvictimsā of the āhorrible disaster known as Obamacare.ā (Kaplan and Davis, 7/24)
President Trump on Monday made a late-hour appeal to senators ā targeting members of his own party ā to move forward with debate over faltering Republican legislation to overhaul the Affordable Care Act. āAny senator who votes against starting debate is telling America that you are fine with the Obamacare nightmare, which is what it is,ā Trump said in an afternoon address from the White House on the eve of an anticipated Senate vote that could spell defeat of the long-sought legislation. (Wagner and Johnson, 7/24)
At the White House, Trump lambasted Democrats who helped enact the 2010 health care law and uniformly oppose the GOP attempt to scrap and rewrite it. āThey run out and say, āDeath, death, death,āā Trump said, with a backdrop of families that he said have encountered problems getting affordable, reliable medical coverage because of Obamaās statute. āWell, Obamacare is death. Thatās the one thatās death.ā (Fram, 7/24)
Trump said Republicans' choice is "to side with Obamacare's architects, or with its forgotten victims." He said some Americans are demanding that Obamacare be repealed. "You'll see that at the voting booth, believe me." (Lee, 7/24)