"The president is confident that the American Health Care Act will pass the House and the Senate and will become the law," Kellyanne Conway says. | Getty Conway: We guarantee the GOP's Obamacare repeal bill will pass

Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway guaranteed on Wednesday that the legislation introduced Monday by House Republicans to replace the Affordable Care Act will pass both houses of Congress and be signed into law.

Asked Wednesday morning on Fox News if she was willing to match House Speaker Paul Ryan’s guarantee that the American Health Care Act will have the requisite 218 votes when it arrives on the House floor, Conway responded that “President Trump is very confident about the passage of the American health Care Act for many reasons.”


Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer followed up that Conway was “not going so far as to say he guarantees it in the same way that Paul Ryan just did.”

“Oh no, I am,” Conway replied. “No, the president is confident that the American Health Care Act will pass the House and the Senate and will become the law.”

Despite confidence on the part of Conway and the president, the legislation introduced Monday already faces stiff headwinds not just from Democrats interested in protecting former President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare legislation but also from Republicans.

Conservatives in both the House and Senate have voiced opposition to the bill over concerns that it does not go far enough in undoing the aspects of Obamacare that they found most objectionable. On the other end of the GOP spectrum, four Republican senators so far have said they cannot support the bill because it goes too far in cutting Medicaid.

Conway said Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have been deeply involved in the new healthcare legislation and that the White House will host conservative leaders Wednesday evening to discuss their qualms with the bill. But lawmakers will eventually face a “binary choice” on the proposal, Conway said, and they will have to decide whether “you’re either making good on the promise to repeal and replace Obamacare or you're not.”

“This is a piece of legislation, also, that has presidential leadership. I mean he is really husbanding this through,” Conway said. “Some people suggested that he be the closer. Some people suggested that he be the lead-off batter. The president and vice president are all in here. This is the American Health Care Act, it has their imprimatur and they are working on this more than anything day by day.”