"ObamaCare is imploding and will only get worse. Republicans coming together to get job done," Donald Trump tweeted. | Getty Trump, in tweet, doubles down on Obamacare 'imploding' claim

President Donald Trump on Saturday doubled down on his claim that Obamacare is "imploding," tweeting after days of notable restraint on social media.

"We are making great progress with healthcare. ObamaCare is imploding and will only get worse. Republicans coming together to get job done," the president wrote.


On Friday, Trump said during a meeting on health care with Vice President Mike Pence and House committee chairmen that 2017 "would be a disaster for Obamacare. That’s the year it was meant to explode because Obama won’t be here. That was when it was supposed to be even worse.”

Trump has in the past week defended the pace at which Congress has tried to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, a signature campaign pledge.

Late Monday, the House unveiled its plan to replace Obamacare, called the American Health Care Act. The plan accelerated through committee markups in a bid to meet an April deadline to sign the first phase of Trump's repeal and replace plan.

The plan, however, has seen dissent from several members of Trump's own party. Centrist and far-right Republicans are divided on the elimination of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion and a proposal to replace insurance subsidies with tax credits.

Trump has stepped back from Twitter in the past week following a series of tweets last Saturday in which he claimed with no evidence that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.