President Trump on Thursday expressed hope the Senate will pass a healthcare plan “with heart,” stopping short of endorsing the just-released plan.

“ObamaCare is dead and we're putting a plan out today that is going to be negotiated,” Trump said during a White House technology event.

“We will hopefully get something done, and it will be something with heart and very meaningful,” he continued.

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Asked if he thinks the bill has enough heart, Trump said it needs “a little negotiation, but it’s going to be very good.”

The comments came minutes after Republican leaders released their long-awaited ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill , which was written behind closed doors.

The 142-page draft measure would fundamentally alter parts of President Obama’s signature healthcare law.

It would make deep cuts to Medicaid, including a gradual rollback of ObamaCare’s expansion of the health insurance program for the poor and disabled.

It also scraps billions of dollars in ObamaCare taxes used to pay for the expansion and eliminates the law’s requirement that Americans purchase insurance.

Trump said he hoped Democrats would sign onto the plan, even though they’re expected to unanimously oppose it in the Senate.

“We'd love to have some Democrats' support, but they're obstructionists,” he said.

Senate GOP leaders hope to hold a vote on the measure as soon as next week. But they face a tough task in attracting the 50 votes needed to pass it, with Vice President Pence stepping in to break a tie. Republicans can only afford two defections and still pass the measure.