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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., center, joined by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks
to reporters as they face assured defeat on the Graham-Cassidy bill, the GOP’s latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, at the Capitol in Washington,
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. The decision marked the latest defeat on the issue for President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Republican-
controlled Congress.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
‘Obamacare’ Survives; GOP Concedes on Last-Gasp Repeal Try

By ERICA WERNER law Tuesday, just ahead of called Republicans” who tention to overhauling the and not under our control,
Associated Press a critical end-of-the-week opposed the GOP effort. nation’s tax code instead. we don’t have the votes.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — deadline. But for now, Trump and The GOP’s predicament “Am I disappointed? Abso-
“Obamacare” lives on. The repeal-and-replace fellow Republicans who was summed up bluntly by lutely,” he said after a GOP
Senate Republicans, short bill’s authors promised to try vowed for seven years to Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisi- lunch attended by Vice
of votes, abandoned their again at a later date, while abolish President Barack ana, a lead author of the President Mike Pence.
latest and possibly final at- President Donald Trump Obama’s law will leave it legislation: “Through events
tempt to kill the health care railed against “certain so- standing and turn their at- that are under our control Continued on Page 3