NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday that efforts to repeal and replace former Democratic President Barack Obama’s signature health care law “ain’t over by a long shot.”
Pence said in a speech at the Tennessee Republicans Party’s annual fundraiser that President Donald Trump plans to achieve the repeal and enact sweeping tax cuts this year.
“We were not elected to save Obamacare; we were elected to repeal and replace it,” Pence said.
Pence called it a “hard truth” that Democratic and Republican opponents of efforts to repeal the health care law in Congress “let the American people down.”
“Make no mistake about it: This ain’t over,” he said. “This ain’t over by a long shot.”