McConnell abandons Obamacare ‘repeal and replace’ after GOP defections

By Robert King

Published July 18, 2017 2:57am ET

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McConnell abandons Obamacare ‘repeal and replace’ after GOP defections — "Part of the reason, I think, that the storyline is that we haven't done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early time lines about things need to be done by a certain point," McConnell said while in Kentucky.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell late Monday announced he was abandoning efforts to pass a bill to “repeal and replace” Obamacare and said he would instead push a bill to fully repeal the law and give Congress two years to figure out a replacement.

He announced that major shift in strategy after GOP support for a repeal-and-replace strategy collapsed in the Senate.

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