Former top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett said former President Obama’s administration did not regret efforts to find common ground with Republicans over health care in a new interview with The New Yorker.

Jarrett, who served as director of the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs under Obama, told the publication that the administration was unprepared for what she called Republicans’ willingness, “in the middle of the worst economic crisis of our lifetime, to put their short-term political interests ahead of what was good for the country.”

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“I think we would have done the same thing, and that is try [to compromise], because it seemed unbelievable to us, and we felt that we owed it to the American people to try mightily to change their minds,” Jarrett said. “So we tried all kinds of strategies to get the Republicans to come to the table and meet us not even halfway — just a little bit of the way.”

During the development and passage of the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, the administration “wanted people who lived in states that had elected officials who were Republican to know that we were there for them, too,” Jarrett said.

"President Obama was determined to be the president for all of America," she said.

President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE's administration has worked to invalidate Obama's signature health care law, beginning with a legislative push in 2017 and including last week's argument by the Justice Department that the entire law should be ruled unconstitutional.