HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump struck a cautiously optimistic tone Wednesday [6-28-17], the day after Senate Republican leaders scuttled plans for a vote on health care reform this week in the face of stiff resistance from within the party’s own ranks.
‘We have given ourselves a little bit more time to make it perfect,’ he said in brief remarks in the White House’s Roosevelt Room where he was hosting a roundtable on energy.
Trump acknowledged that shuttling the health care legislation through the Senate is ‘very tough,’ but said he believed he and Republicans would ‘get it over the line.’
‘I think we’re going to get at least very close and I think we’re going to get it over the line,’ Trump said. ‘We have given ourselves a little more time to make it perfect.’
The President’s comments came a day after he sat down with Senate Republicans at the White House to discuss the struggling health care reform efforts that have dogged his presidency.
With just 52 Republicans in the Senate, the White House can only afford to lose two senators to pass the Senate’s version of legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare — a promise at the core of nearly every Republicans’ campaign platforms in recent years.”
-Jeremy Diamond, “Trump on health care: ‘A little more time to make it perfect’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 28, 2017 01:20pm