Sen. Roy Blunt Roy Dean BluntSCOTUS confirmation in the last month of a close election? Ugly Senate to push funding bill vote up against shutdown deadline Social media platforms put muscle into National Voter Registration Day MORE (R-Mo.) said Thursday there was "no reason" for Republicans to try to work with Democrats on healthcare legislation.

"They shut themselves out, they said they clearly were not gonna be part of anything," Bunt said on "Morning Newswatch" on local Missouri radio KZRG, CNN reported

"There's no reason to spend a lot of time trying to negotiate with somebody who is not going to be for the repair that you're doing and the replacement that you're doing."

Senate Republican leaders on Thursday revealed a draft of their long-awaited ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill ahead of a high-stake vote expected next week. ADVERTISEMENT The measure includes deep cuts to Medicaid and fundamentally reshapes that program from an open-ended government commitment to a system of capped federal payments that limit federal spending.

Blunt said during the interview that Republicans in Washington had been working for months to find a plan that would get the support of half of the Senate.