That and other aspects of the unfinished GOP plan prompted several wary lawmakers to urge their leaders to move more deliberately - even as the Trump administration appears to be moving ahead with repeal. Thursday, the White House ordered federal health officials to immediately halt all advertising and other outreach activities for the critical final days in which Americans can sign up for 2017 health coverage through Affordable Care Act marketplaces. The administration partly retracted that directive on Friday, allowing the Health and Human Services Department to continue to contact people eligible for ACA coverage by email, text and automated phone calls and reviving use of a HealthCare.gov Twitter account.The new directive also airing of some ads if the government would otherwise lose the money.