{UAH} President Trump now credits himself for nixing GOP health care vote, says he couldn’t ‘lose’
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President Trump now credits himself for nixing GOP health care vote, says he couldn't 'lose'
President Trump.
(ANDREW HARNIK/AP)President Trump didn't win on health care — and now won't admit it.
Trump said in an interview published Sunday that it was his idea to not even vote on the GOP's failed health care bill — even though he was still supporting it right up until the moment it died.
"I didn't want to take a vote. It was my idea. I said why should I take a vote," Trump told the Financial Times.
The interviewer suggested that Trump cut the vote because he didn't want to outright lose on the bill.
"Yeah, I don't lose. I don't like to lose," Trump replied.
"But that wasn't a definitive day. They are negotiating as we speak. I don't know if you know. They are negotiating right now. There was no reason to take a vote. I said, 'Don't take a vote,' and we will see what happens. But one way or the other, I promised the people great health care."
He assured he would work with Democrats to pass a plan — but only if the Republicans can't "get what we want" by themselves.
A planned hatched with the Democrats, he added, would lead to "not as good a form of healthcare."
Trump's story in the interview is not based in reality.
Until the day the American Health Care Act died without a vote, Trump had been pushing fellow Republicans to support it — even threatening those who didn't with hints of a voter revolt — and said in tweets and interviews that he believed it was the best plan to replace Obamacare.
But the bill could not even win over a GOP-controlled Congress, especially after a Congressional Budget Office report said it would strip 24 million Americans of their coverage.
When the first vote was postponed due to the weak support, it was Trump who demanded a do-or-die vote be held the next day.
Instead, he and House Speaker Paul Ryan withdrew the bill. Trump and Ryan have now each claimed it was their idea to nix the vote.
Since then, Trump has tried to spin a story that he knew the bill was bad from the beginning. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters the business mogul recognized the bill as a "bad deal" and knew to walk away from it.
Trump is still promising to repeal and replace Obamacare, and apparently spent part of his Sunday discussing it while golfing, though he has yet to unveil specifics steps for the future.
The Financial Times interviewer also asked Trump if he has regretted any of his tweets in office.
Of course, he does not.
"Without the tweets, I wouldn't be here," Trump said.
"I don't regret anything, because there is nothing you can do about it. You know if you issue hundreds of tweets, and every once in a while you have a clinker, that's not so bad."
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