House GOP leaders aren’t ready to hold a vote this week on their stalled health-care bill, despite intense pressure from the White House to deliver on a long-promised repeal of Obamacare.
“We’ve been making great progress, and when we have the votes we’ll vote on it,” Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California told reporters late Thursday.
Republicans vote-counters had been weighing whether to hold a vote this week, after conservative holdouts endorsed the bill following recent revisions. But a number of moderate Republicans remained opposed to the measure, and leaders were also distracted by the need to assemble votes for a stopgap measure to fund the government. The current spending bill runs out Friday.
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