He had flown to Birmingham, Ala., to stump for now lame-duck Sen. Luther Strange, Alabama Republican, a day before the state GOP Senate runoff. Ted Cruz, Texas, and Susan Collins, Maine, signaled their opposition to the health care bill engineered by fellow GOP Sens. The Kentucky Republican didn’t commit to putting the latest GOP health care legislation to a vote before a special legislative deadline that expired this weekend. The GOP can’t even squeeze a health care bill through both bodies of Congress and onto the President Trump’s desk. McConnell & company decided to sideline the health care bill for the time being.

Source: Fox News October 01, 2017 18:22 UTC