“I think everybody is trying very hard. It is a very tough system,” President Donald Trump said. | Getty Trump: I’m ‘disappointed’ in House GOP on health care

President Donald Trump said this week that he is “disappointed” in House Republicans for failing to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare so far.

“Yeah, I'm disappointed,” Trump told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum in an interview set to air Friday evening on her show “The First 100 Days.”


Trump maintained that he likes the Republicans in Congress “a lot” and has “great relationships” with them, but said he is nonetheless “disappointed” that the legislative process “doesn’t go quicker.”

“Many of them, like the Freedom Caucus, came, and I see them all the time. ‘We love our president. We're doing this for our president,’” Trump said. “You look at that, you look at the moderates, it's the same thing. I'm disappointed.”

“I'll tell you, Paul Ryan's trying very, very hard,” he added. “I think everybody is trying very hard. It is a very tough system.”

House Republicans attempted to repeal former President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care law in March, but a lack of support for the proposed bill from the conservative House Freedom Caucus and the moderate Tuesday Group derailed it.

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Leaders in the House are now trying to sell a revised version of the bill that the Freedom Caucus has endorsed. They say a vote would come next week at the earliest, meaning Trump’s 100th day as president will fly by before Republicans pass any major pieces of legislation.

Trump pushed back on that characterization of his early presidency to MacCallum.

“I was with a reporter the other day who said the same thing: ‘You didn't pass anything,’” Trump said. “I said, ‘No, we passed 28 bills.’ And by the way, tomorrow it could be 32.”