Story highlights As a practical political concern, this photo was not a good idea

CBO projects 23 million Americans who might otherwise be covered would lose their health insurance

(CNN) Everyone looks so happy.

On the same day they voted to shred Obamacare and replace it with the American Health Care Act, House Republicans made their way to the White House for a little celebration.

Like Super Bowl or World Series winners, they gathered with President Donald Trump for some back-slapping and a photo op in the Rose Garden. There was a certain logic to it. After years of railing against Obamacare and months of internal squabbling over what to replace it with, the GOP was not passing up a victory lap (even if it was really only at about the quarter pole).

Turns out, at least as a practical political concern, this was not a good idea.

The new score out from the Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday projects that, if the new iteration of the bill becomes law, 23 million Americans who might otherwise be covered would lose their health insurance over the next decade.

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