President Trump on Tuesday evening expressed confidence that Sen. Rand Paul Randal (Rand) Howard PaulGOP senator to quarantine after coronavirus exposure The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by National Industries for the Blind - Trump seeks to flip 'Rage' narrative; Dems block COVID-19 bill Overnight Health Care: Senate Democrats block GOP relief bill | Democrats reveal Medicaid chief's spending on high-paid consultants | Trump calls question about why he 'lied' about COVID-19 a 'disgrace' MORE (R-Ky.) would "come along" with the House GOP plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

"I feel sure that my friend @RandPaul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster!" Trump tweeted.

I feel sure that my friend @RandPaul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 8, 2017

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Around the same time, Paul appeared on CNN, calling the House plan "a little bit more ObamaCare-like than I would like."

"We're very, very united on repeal, not so much on replace, and so I think the real problem is adding replacement to the repeal bill," he said. "I think the repeal bill probably won’t pass unless we take replacement off of it."

Paul, who has been an outspoken critic of the healthcare proposal rollout, tweeted Tuesday morning that the House GOP plan wouldn't pass because it is too similar to the existing healthcare law.

"The House leadership plan is Obamacare Lite. It will not pass. Conservatives are not going to take it,” Paul tweeted.

Paul and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Tuesday they plan to introduce their own ObamaCare repeal plan. They said they will introduce a clean bill to repeal ObamaCare, as Congress did in 2015.