Trump administration officials continue to push the Senate to take another run at healthcare legislation, but senior Republican senators have pushed back, making clear that they're done with the topic for now. "There's just too much animosity and we're too divided on healthcare," Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), the head of the Senate Finance Committee, said in an interview Monday with Reuters. "I think we ought to acknowledge that we can come back to healthcare afterward, but we need to move ahead on tax reform," Hatch said. "Until someone shows us how to get that elusive 50th vote, I think it's over," he told reporters. Tuesday morning, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky completed the list of top Republicans shutting the door for now on the healthcare issue.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 01, 2017 14:23 UTC