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Chicago Tribune: Trump backs off on new Republican health plan after GOP pushes back

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned President Donald Trump to hold off action in Congress to replace the Affordable Care Act, telling him to instead take it on the road as a 2020 campaign issue.”

“The two spoke Monday ahead of Trump’s evening tweets suggesting he had moved off his push for a big new health care bill…”

“Trump’s latest tweets punted the promise of a new GOP bill, which ran into stiff resistance from Republicans in Congress.”

“They encouraged him to focus instead on bipartisan health care changes they could accomplish with Democrats…” Read the full article here.

Source: Trump backs off on new Republican health plan after GOP pushes back – By Lisa Mascaro and Catherine Lucey, April 2, 2019. Chicago Tribune.

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Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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