House GOP leadership on Friday pulled a bill to repeal Obamacare from the House floor, after President Trump asked House Speaker Paul Ryan to end work on the doomed measure.
The decision to pull the American Health Care Act off the House floor was a concession that they don't have the votes for the controversial bill. Recent changes outlined on Thursday night and an ultimatum from Trump weren't enough to sway wary moderates and far-right conservatives to support the package.
But the changes weren't enough to persuade some reluctant moderates who are
worried about people in their districts losing coverage and making themselves open to attacks from Democrats in 2018.
Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J., a moderate, said that he was still no on the bill after a procedural vote on Friday.
What doomed the bill was what Republicans couldn't include in there: a full repeal of Obamacare. Republicans planned to use an arcane procedure called reconciliation to get the bill through the Senate with simply 51 votes and not the 60 needed for a filibuster.
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