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Conservative Backlash Threatens to Sink New GOP Health Bill
ERICA WERNER loomed as key Republican
lawmakers announced
ALAN FRAM their opposition, and one
conservative group after
Associated Press another torched the plan.
The Club for Growth, Heri-
WASHINGTON (AP) — A tage Action for America,
Americans for Prosper-
powerful conservative ity and Tea Party Patri-
ots variously derided the
backlash threatened to new bill as Obamacare
Lite, Obamacare 2.0 and
sink the new Republican even RyanCare, in a dig at
House Speaker Paul Ryan
health care bill Tuesday of Wisconsin.
The concerted conserva-
less than 24 hours after its tive opposition was a re-
markable rebuke to legisla-
launch, even as President tion GOP leaders hope will
fulfill seven years of prom-
Donald Trump and con- ises to repeal and replace
Barack Obama’s Afford-
gressional leaders began able Care Act, pledges
that played out in countless
trying to sell the legislation Republican campaigns for
House and Senate as well
as the long-promised GOP as last year’s race for presi-
dent.
cure for “Obamacare.”
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“We’re going to do some-
thing that’s great and I’m
proud to support the re-
placement plan released
by the House of Represen-
tatives,” Trump declared
at the White House as he
met with the House GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, standing with Energy and Commerce Committee Chair-
man Greg Walden, R-Ore., right, and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left, speaks
vote-counting team Tues- during a news conference on the American Health Care Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tues-
day, March 7, 2017.
day. “We’re going to take
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
action. There’s going to be
Meanwhile, Vice President was their chance to scuttle Connell forecast congres-
no slowing down. There’s Mike Pence told GOP law- Obama’s law, and Senate sional passage by early
makers at the Capitol this Majority Leader Mitch Mc- April. But major obstacles
going to be no waiting
and no more excuses by
anybody.”
