“The American Action Network spent $15 million on health care reform since Jan. 1,” said Corry Bliss, the group’s executive director. Watching efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act fall apart was more than just a setback for conservatives who disliked the law, which expanded the government’s role in health care and created an expensive new entitlement program. Planned Parenthood has retained its federal funding, despite Mr. Trump’s repeated vows to cut the group off, a promise that has died, for now, with the health care bill. And as conservatives digested news on Tuesday of the failed health care effort, their disgust was evident. “Clearly that’s what we lacked during the health care debate,” he added.

Source: New York Times July 19, 2017 11:05 UTC