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Donald Trump Just Tried to Deny New York Times Report That He Backtracked on a Healthcare Vote, But Times Reporters Have the Receipts

Donald Trump Just Tried to Deny New York Times Report That He Backtracked on a Healthcare Vote, But Times Reporters Have the Receipts
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 01: U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a meeting with leaders of the steel industry at the White House March 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump announced planned tariffs on imported steel and aluminum during the meeting, with details to be released at a later date. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Nice try.

President Donald Trump stunned everyone - Republicans and Democrats alike - when he announced that he'd be replacing the Affordable Care Act with one being developed by Republicans. Now he's saying he never wanted Congress to vote on the issue until after the 2020 election.

The Republican party has long been pushing to repeal Obamacare, but Trump abruptly upped the ante last week, when he asked a federal court judge to invalidate the ACA and promised a Republican replacement.


The problem? No replacement is in the works. And now the president is backtracking, claiming that putting it to vote after the 2020 election was his idea all along.

"I never asked Mitch McConnell for a vote before the Election as has been incorrectly reported (as usual) in the @nytimes," Trump Tweeted, "but only after the Election when we take back the House etc. Republicans will always support pre-existing conditions!"

The New York Times wasn't having it. "We stand by our reporting."

White House Correspondent for the New York Times and one of the article's authors, Maggie Haberman, also stood her ground against Trump.

Trump's sudden change of heart came after a strong backlash from GOP leaders, including Senator Mitch McConnell, who told the president that pushing for an immediate overhaul of the health care system wasn't in the works. "I made it clear to him that we were not going to be doing that in the Senate," said McConnell.

But Trump's version is different: "I wanted to delay it myself. I want to put it after the election."

"The Republican Party will be known as the Party of Great HealthCare," Trump tweeted on Monday.

"They’re trying to take away health-care coverage from tens of millions of people, to take away protections for people who have preexisting conditions," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Repealing Obamacare would leave over 20 million Americans without access to health insurance.

Trump can backtrack all he wants, but the internet has a long memory.

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