Trump disappointed in 'so-called Republicans' over Obamacare repeal

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he is “disappointed in certain so-called Republicans.”

Trump expressed displeasure at what will likely be another failed attempt by Senate Republicans to pass a repeal of former President Barack Obama’s health care law.


“We’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters.

Republicans face a Saturday deadline to drag their repeal plan across the finish line on a party-line vote, but passage by then appears unlikely. At least three Republicans in the 52-member caucus have said they won’t vote for the bill, including Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, John McCain of Arizona, and Susan Collins of Maine, who announced her opposition on Monday after leaning toward “no” over the last few days.

“We were very disappointed by a couple of senators,” Trump said Tuesday. “Republican senators I must say. We were very disappointed that they would take the attitude that they did. We don’t know why they did it — you can sort of figure that — but we’ll see what happens.”

Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, the lead authors on the GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare, have vowed to “press on.”

“We’re going to press on,” Graham said late Monday in a nationally televised debate with Cassidy against Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). “It’s OK to vote. It’s OK to fall short.”

The Graham-Cassidy bill would block-grant federal health care funding to the states. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was expected to bring the legislation to the floor for a vote this week, but it’s unclear whether he ultimately will given that the bill currently lacks the votes to pass.

