The White House is urging Senate Republicans not to give up on healthcare after an ObamaCare repeal bill failed on the floor last week.

"I think our point is this: Let's not move on from healthcare just because you failed by one vote," White House budget director Mick Mulvaney Mick MulvaneyMick Mulvaney to start hedge fund Fauci says positive White House task force reports don't always match what he hears on the ground Bottom line MORE said Wednesday on CNN.

"The president isn't giving up on healthcare. Neither should the Senate."

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But GOP leaders appear ready to move on after a scaled-down "skinny" repeal bill failed to pass last Friday by a single vote.

The Senate's Health Committee chairman, meanwhile, said his panel will hold hearings after the August recess on bipartisan efforts to stabilize the ObamaCare exchanges.

But the White House isn't ready to give up on efforts to repeal and replace the 2010 healthcare law.

"We haven't given up on trying to repeal and replace," Mulvaney said.

"We're not sure how you can run for seven years saying, 'If you elect us, we'll repeal and replace ObamaCare,' and then the voters give us a chance to do that, and we don't do it. We've got that working, which we know everyone agrees with. The question is why can't the Senate deliver on that."

Trump has also threatened to end key ObamaCare payments to insurers that help lower out-of-pocket costs for low-income policy holders. The president is said to be making a decision on the payments next week.

"The president's attitude is fairly simple: If people are suffering, and they are, and they will continue to suffer because we have not repealed or replaced ObamaCare, why shouldn't insurance companies similarly suffer? That's his point," Mulvaney said.

"I don't think that's an unfair or unreasonable position for the president of the United States to take."

Insurers have threatened to leave the ObamaCare markets or raise premiums if they don't get the disbursements, known as cost-sharing reduction payments.

A number of Republicans in Congress have called on the Trump administration to continue the payments.