WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is celebrating the passage of the House Republican health care bill, saying he is confident it will get through the Senate.
Trump says the health care debate has “really brought the Republican Party together.”
He’s noting that the party includes many different groups, from conservatives to more moderate Republicans, and that sometimes work at cross-purposes. But hashing out the details on health care, Trump says, helps lay the groundwork for other legislative lifts, such as overhauling the tax code. “This really helps it,” he says.
The measure skirted through the House by a thin 217-213 vote, as all voting Democrats and 20 mostly moderate Republican holdouts voted no.
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