Trump aides vague on Obamacare repeal timing

Published January 8, 2017 6:26pm ET



Top aides to President-elect Trump issued only vague statements Sunday on their preference for the sequencing of the Republican Congress’ effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, refraining from trying to settle a growing intra-GOP controversy.

Asked on CNN if Trump favors replacing the healthcare law at the same time it is repealed, his counselor Kellyanne Conway declined to say. On Friday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., had claimed that Trump did, in fact, want replacement legislation to go along with repeal.

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