{"id":79637,"date":"2017-08-02T10:50:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T14:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=79637"},"modified":"2017-08-02T10:50:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T14:50:40","slug":"trump-let-obamacare-implode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=79637","title":{"rendered":"Trump: ‘Let Obamacare Implode’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Todd Beamon
\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump Friday vowed to “let Obamacare implode” after bare-bones legislation to repeal the healthcare law failed on a decisive early morning vote cast by Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain.<\/p>\n

“They should have approved healthcare last night, but you can’t have everything,” Trump told law enforcement at a rally vowing to destroy the MS-13 street gang on Long Island in New York.<\/p>\n

“They’ve been working on that one for seven years,” he said. “Can you believe that?<\/p>\n

“The swamp.<\/p>\n

“But we’ll get it done,” Trump said. “We’re going to get it done.<\/p>\n

“I said from the beginning, let Obamacare implode, and then do it.<\/p>\n

“I turned out to be right. Let Obamacare implode.”<\/p>\n

McCain, 80, who returned to Washington this week after brain cancer surgery, joined Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to vote against a “skinny” bill that would have repealed core elements of the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

McCain cast his vote around 1:30 a.m. Friday. The legislation failed 49-51, falling just short of the 50 votes needed to advance it.<\/p>\n

The senator said Thursday that he would not support the repeal, proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, unless House Republicans agreed to go to conference to reach a deal for broader healthcare reform.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, McCain cast the 50th vote to start debate on the “skinny” repeal bill, creating a tie that was broken by Vice President Mike Pence.<\/p>\n

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