Trump administration officials continue to push the Senate to take another run at healthcare legislation, but on Monday senior Republican senators pushed back, making clear that they're done with the topic for now. "There's just too much animosity and we're too divided on healthcare," Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), the head of the Senate Finance Committee, said in an interview with Reuters. "I think we ought to acknowledge that we can come back to healthcare afterward, but we need to move ahead on tax reform," Hatch said. "I think it's time to move on to something else," Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri told CNN. Last week, the Senate defeated several different Republican plans to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 31, 2017 23:06 UTC