Pelosi calls Trump’s Obamacare order ‘nonsensical’

Published January 23, 2017 6:58pm ET



House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi trained her fire on President Trump’s new executive orders targeting Obamacare, saying the new president isn’t sincere in improving health coverage.

The California Democrat issued a statement Monday in response to an executive order Trump signed late Friday that directs federal agencies to not enforce parts of Obamacare such as the law’s individual mandate. On Sunday, Trump senior counselor Kellyanne Conway said that Trump shares the GOP’s goal of converting Medicaid into a state block-grant program.

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