US President Donald Trump responds to questions following the decision by his party to pull a healthcare bill that lacked the votes to pass on Friday. The failure of the Republicans’ three-month blitz to repeal former president Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement exposed deep divisions in the Republican Party that the election of a Republican president could not mask. And it was the biggest defeat yet in Trump’s presidency, which has suffered many in just the past two months. Trump expressed weariness with the effort, though its failure took a fraction of the time that Democrats devoted to enacting the Affordable Care Act in 2009 and 2010. “We tried our hardest,” said Republican Rep Michael Burgess of Texas, chairman of a House subcommittee on health.

Source: Bangkok Post March 25, 2017 07:41 UTC