Vice President Pence on Tuesday praised his boss and slammed Congress after the stunning failure of the GOP-led Senate to even hold a vote on their bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

“Inaction is not an option. Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now!” Pence said at the National Retail Federation’s annual summit in Washington.

The veep echoed President Trump’s most recent position on overhauling the nation’s health care system, calling on lawmakers to repeal ObamaCare now and figure out how to replace it down the road.

He praised what he called the president’s “inexhaustible optimism and determination,” adding that, “Since day one of this administration, President Trump has been fighting tirelessly to repeal and replace ObamaCare.”

Pence also repeated the administration’s familiar litany of complaints about the Affordable Care Act, but did not offer any solutions other than a call for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to lead the effort to repeal the law.

“President Trump and I fully support the majority leader’s decision to move forward with a bill that just repeals ObamaCare and gives Congress time, as the president said, to work on a new health care plan that will start with a clean slate,” he said.