Let’s get back to work and do what we told the voters we were going to do.”Expand / Contract The defeat was a stinging rebuke for House Speaker Paul Ryan. Trump, who has had an on-again, off-again relationship with Ryan, initially seemed let down by the speaker’s inability to deliver the votes for a bill Trump had supported. But a day later, Trump tweeted that it was the Freedom Caucus and conservative think tanks that had killed the bill and left ObamaCare in place. “Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood & Ocare!” Trump tweeted. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a physician, also has been a vocal critic of the House bill and it was not clear that the Trump-backed plan would have passed in the Senate.

Source: Fox News March 27, 2017 13:41 UTC