{"id":118499,"date":"2017-03-24T15:08:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=118499"},"modified":"2017-03-25T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T18:15:58","slug":"health-care-overhaul-bill-pulled-off-house-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=118499","title":{"rendered":"Health Care overhaul bill pulled off House floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-86115\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RyanPaul11-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RyanPaul11-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RyanPaul11-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RyanPaul11.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Speaker Paul Ryan Friday, abruptly pulled the Republicans&#8217; troubled health care overhaul off the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was a humiliating setback for President Donald Trump and congressional leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The bill had appeared all but certain to be defeated Friday. The roll call was on track to occur about 4-p.m., Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The measure has been a top GOP priority and was the party&#8217;s first major legislative effort since it took control of both the White House and Congress in January.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would repeal much of former President Barack Obama&#8217;s 2010 health care law, including its requirement that people buy policies.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump says his health care reform fell short because it lacked support from Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made his first comments about the failure of a signature legislative item Friday in the Oval Office a short time after a House vote on the bill was cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told reporters &#8220;we were very close&#8221; and tried to blame Democrats, through Republicans control both the House and the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>He also predicted the Affordable Care Act would soon implode, forcing Democrats to join the Republicans at the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"_oneup\">House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on failure of GOP health bill: &#8216;Today is a victory for the American people&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Speaker Paul Ryan Friday, abruptly pulled the Republicans&#8217; troubled health care overhaul off the House floor. The decision was a humiliating setback for President Donald Trump and congressional leaders. The bill had appeared all but certain to be defeated Friday. The roll call was on track to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118499"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118514,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118499\/revisions\/118514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}