White House press secretary Sean Spicer defended the three-pronged process by which Republican leadership on Capitol Hill and the White House are attempting to shepherd the bill along. | Getty Spicer: Obamacare repeal bill 'will land on the president's desk. He will sign it.'

White House press secretary Sean Spicer expressed certainty that the legislation introduced this week by House Republicans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act will ultimately succeed, telling reporters that “this bill will land on the president's desk. He will sign it. We will repeal Obamacare.”

Spicer defended the three-pronged process by which Republican leadership on Capitol Hill and the White House are attempting to shepherd the bill along, which the press secretary said allows for more transparency and opens an opportunity for “additional legislative vehicles.”


While the White House and Republican leaders in both the House and Senate have been bullish on the legislation’s prospects, others in the GOP are more skeptical and some are outright opposed to the measure. Conservatives in both houses of Congress have announced they will oppose the bill, at least in its current form, because it leaves in place too many provisions from the ACA that they found troubling.

And in the Senate specifically, four GOP senators have announced they cannot support the bill because of its cuts to Medicaid.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who in an interview Wednesday morning said House Republicans were moving “too quickly” on the repeal-and-replace legislation but said it has “some good measures,” wrote on Twitter that the bill “can't pass Senate w/o major changes.”

While Spicer offered a defense of the approach Republican leaders and the White House have taken in undoing former President Barack Obama’s signature legislation, many of the conservative lawmakers have called for a so-called clean repeal that strips away the ACA completely so that it can be replaced entirely by a new, presumably conservative-friendly bill.

Spicer refused to say if President Donald Trump, who has insisted that Obamacare be repealed and replaced at the same time, would sign such legislation, insisting instead that the bill introduced this week by House leadership is the one that Trump will ultimately sign.