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Here’s what you need to know:

• Senate health bill collapses.

Two more Republicans said on Monday that they would oppose their party’s measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, killing, for now, a seven-year promise to overturn former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement.

Facing defeat, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, outlined plans to repeal the health law first and replace it later, a strategy that could leave millions without insurance. This morning, President Trump said, “We will return.”

In the end, our congressional reporter writes, Republicans faced an old truth: An entitlement can almost never be retracted.