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‘Let Obamacare Fail,’ Trump Declares as GOP Plan Collapses

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. President Donald Trump blasted
congressional Democrats and “a few Republicans” over the collapse of the GOP effort to rewrite the Obama health care law. McConnell proposed a vote on a
backup plan simply repealing the statute, but that idea was on the brink of rejection, too.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

By ERICA WERNER years to abolish the law. In a head- Moore Capito of West Virginia — That had followed the failure of an
ALAN FRAM spinning series of developments, who delivered the death blow. earlier version of the bill last month.
Associated Press rank-and-file Republican senators All had been shut out of McCon- The successive defeats made
WASHINGTON (AP) — President turned on McConnell and Trump nell’s initial all-male working group clear that despite seven years of
Donald Trump declared Tuesday for the third time in a row, deny- on health care. promises to repeal former Presi-
it’s time to “let Obamacare fail” af- ing the votes to move forward with McConnell, who could afford to dent Barack Obama’s Affordable
ter the latest GOP health care plan a plan for a straight-up repeal of lose only two votes in the narrow- Care Act, Republicans apparently
crashed and burned in the Senate, “Obamacare.” ly divided Senate, had turned to cannot deliver.
a stunning failure for the president, This time, it was three GOP wom- the repeal-only bill after his earlier
Republican leader Mitch McCon- en — Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa repeal-and-replace measure was Continued on Page 3
nell and a party that has vowed for Murkowski of Alaska, and Shelley rejected on Monday.