Republican lawmakers are beginning to grapple with the difficult reality of reforming healthcare, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said Tuesday, describing the current situation as “confusion wrapped around chaos.”

“What is happening right now, Republicans are having a head-on collision with reality,” Inslee told CNN’s “New Day.”

“The effort here is not to improve health, it’s just to have a piggy bank to give tax cuts to the wealthy,” he addd. “And what they have found out is, you can’t do that. They’re running into reality.”

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After meeting with President Trump on Monday as part of a National Governors Association gathering, Inslee said he walked away “more concerned” than he was before the meeting.

He continued to voice concern on Tuesday, saying he has “zero confidence” that the White House has a coherent plan to replace ObamaCare.

“The president has never addressed the real subject matter here. He continues to shuck and jive, if you will, about the specifics of this,” he said. “At this late date, not to have a plan that you can articulate is very, very disturbing.”

As a presidential candidate, Trump vowed to promptly repeal and replace President Obama’s signature healthcare law. That promise was greeted warmly by congressional Republicans, who have long tried to dismantle the law.

But even with Trump in office, repealing and replacing the law has proved more difficult than once thought, as some GOP lawmakers voice concern that repealing the law could take health insurance away from the roughly 20 million people covered under ObamaCare.

The White House is expected to release a replacement proposal in the coming weeks.