WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump ended his weekend jaunt to his Bedminster golf club Sunday after helping to raise more than $800,000 for Rep. Tom MacArthur and the Republican Party.

Trump was the guest of honor at a fundraiser for MacArthur (R-3rd Dist.), who played a leading role in enabling House Republicans to pass legislation repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. It was his first fundraiser for an incumbent House member.

MacArthur was the only member of the New Jersey congressional delegation to attend the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where Trump was nominated.

The president, who arrived in Bedminster on Friday, scheduled no public appearances during his three-day visit. He did, however, stop by a wedding held at the golf club over the weekend.

MacArthur campaign consultant Chris Russell said the fundraising event attracted about 100 guests and raised more than $800,000, according to White House pool reports.

The invitation solicited donations of as much as $100,000 for MacArthur and offered a chance to take a picture with the president.

Besides MacArthur's re-election campaign, donations will go to his leadership political action committee, the state Republican Party and the National Republican Congressional Committee.

More than 100 protesters drove past the golf club on Sunday, seeking to disrupt the event.

At the fundraiser, which was closed, Russell said MacArthur talked about "making tough decisions and solving problems," according to the pool report.

"He didn't run for Congress to decorate a chair," Russell said. "Obamacare is failing, premiums are rising and choices are dwindling. Tom decided sitting on the sidelines and letting it completely collapse was not an option. His efforts will ensure access to quality health care, protect people with pre-existing conditions and lower costs for families and small business."

The Congressional Budget Office said the House Republican bill would leave 23 million more Americans without coverage than under current law and leave some with pre-existing conditions "unable to purchase comprehensive coverage with premiums close to those under current law and might not be able to purchase coverage at all."

Other policyholders would face "increases of thousands of dollars" in premiums to keep the same coverage they have now if states exempt insurers from providing the federally mandated package of essential health benefits such as hospitalization, the CBO said.

Trump promised during the campaign not to cut Medicaid. Instead, he embraced the Republican bill that reduces spending for the health care program for the poor, elderly and disabled by $834 billion over 10 years, and uses most of the savings to cut taxes for corporations and wealthy Americans.

The House GOP bill was more unpopular than ever in a Quinnipiac University poll released last week, with a record 62 percent opposing the measure and just 17 percent supporting it.

Senate Republicans can lose only three members if they are to pass their own repeal bill, and one of them, U.S. Susan Collins of Maine, said she would not support the House measure.

"The Senate bill is still a work in progress," she said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We haven't seen the actual language. We're trying to influence the direction of that. But a bill that results in 23 million people losing coverage is not a bill that I can support. So, we will see what the Senate comes up with."

Another Republican, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that "the House bill is dead in the Senate."

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