McConnell said he spoke with the president Monday afternoon and told him the Senate would not do anything 'comprehensive' regarding health care until Republicans gained full control of Congress.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told President Donald Trump the Senate would not revisit health care reform before the 2020 elections, the Kentucky Republican said Tuesday.
McConnell, who spoke to reporters after the weekly Senate Republican lunch on Capitol Hill, has long vowed to overturn the law. The Senate came just short of doing so in 2017 following a battle within the party over how best to replace Obamacare. Both Republicans and Democrats think the GOP's repeal effort was a driving force behind Republicans losing 40 House seats in last year's midterms.
Trump repeatedly criticized Obamacare, pledging throughout his presidential campaign to do away with the health care law put in place by his predecessor, President Barack Obama. In March, the Department of Justice went further than it had before in trying to scrap the Affordable Care Act, supporting a federal judge's ruling that Obamacare is unconstitutional.
"There's no point in pushing the panic button," he said."The court system takes a long time to resolve these issues."
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