The three leading G.O.P. health care proposals all involve block grants. Those plans are hard to square with the president’s promises to lower premiums and deductibles.
A nonbinding resolution approved by the House calls for the Trump administration to drop its support for a judge’s decision that ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.
President Trump retreated on plans to introduce a Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act, all but ensuring that health care would be central to the 2020 campaign.
President Trump had promised Republicans would replace the Affordable Care Act with a better, cheaper health law. Then the Senate majority leader told him that would not be happening.
The ruling was the second big defeat this week for the president’s health care agenda, as he has sought to use the courts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, spent years in Congress saying the health care law should be repealed. He brought that argument to the Oval Office.
President Trump decided to press courts to overturn the Affordable Care Act despite concerns from the attorney general, the health secretary and the vice president.
The decision by the Trump administration to push for a court-ordered demolition of the Affordable Care Act came after President Trump sided with his chief of staff over his lawyers.
The Affordable Care Act touches the lives of most Americans. Some 21 million could lose health insurance if the Trump administration were to succeed in having the law ruled unconstitutional.