President Trump promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act "immediately" and "on Day 1" while on the campaign trail. The 2016 election results could be read as a mandate for the long-standing GOP promise to repeal the ACA, which President Trump fully endorsed, saying he would even call a special session of Congress to do so. By this standard, President Trump started the repeal process in great shape, given the largest Republican majority in the House since the late 1920s and 52 Senate seats. Yet members of Congress — granted, in diametrically opposed ways — objected to it based on its substance as well as its symbolism. And, as Sarah Binder has pointed out, Trump ran behind 90 percent of Republican members of Congress in their districts in 2016.

Source: Washington Post March 24, 2017 23:37 UTC