President Trump is “moving on” from health care after the House scuttled a planned Friday afternoon vote on the White House-backed American Health Care Act, says a senior White House aide.
House speaker Paul Ryan decided to pull the troubled bill following a Friday meeting with the president at the White House. The choice to delay the vote was Ryan’s alone, says the White House aide, and declined to say whether Trump supported that decision. Asked if the president would be pushing for another vote on health care sometime in the near future, the aide responded: “We’re moving on.”
Just hours before the bill was pulled, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at his daily briefing that Friday’s planned vote was “our moment” to repeal Obamacare. “You now have a president that’s going to sign the bill if you pass it,” Spicer said, in a message to Republican members. “And now is that time.”
The White House aide said tax reform will be the next legislative priority for the president.
