Trump: We are making ‘great progress with healthcare’

“We are making great progress with healthcare,” the president tweeted as the White House and GOP leadership is pushing through a bill that is getting severe pushback from conservatives. “Obamacare is imploding and will only get worse. Republicans coming together to get job done!”

Trump’s tweet on Saturday morning comes the same day that Vice President Pence is expected to tout the American Health Care Act in Louisville, Ky.

The bill aims to gut Obamacare’s mandates and taxes and leaves the Medicaid expansion in place until 2020.

However, conservatives have balked at the extended transition for the expansion. Conservatives on the Freedom Caucus and in the Senate are pushing for the expansion to end after this year, a prospect that could doom the bill’s chances in the Senate as several moderate GOP senators want a lengthy transition.

Trump said earlier this week that another healthcare bill will come out next week that will feature more reforms such as selling insurance plans across state lines.

Trump has sought to stymy fears around the healthcare bill before.

After the plan was rolled out on Monday night, key conservatives in the House and Senate labeled it as “Obamacare lite” and “Obamacare 2.0,” referencing the bill’s intention to keep Obamacare’s tax credits to lower insurance but peg them towards age instead of income.

“Despite what you hear in the press, healthcare is coming along,” he tweeted the day after the bill was released.