President Donald Trump (left) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s aides opened the door to working with moderate Democrats on health care and other issues while Senate Democratic leader and New York Senator Chuck Schumer quickly offered to find common ground with Trump for repairing former President Barack Obama’s health care law.
Schumer said Sunday that Trump must be willing to drop attempts to repeal his predecessor’s signature achievement, warning that Trump was destined to “lose again” on other parts of his agenda if he remained beholden to conservative Republicans.
Trump initially focused the blame for the failure on Democrats and predicted a dire future for the current law.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Americans are going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future, after the Republican-sponsored American Health Care Act – which was designed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act – couldn’t make it to a vote on Friday in the House.
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