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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is using Twitter to take a whack at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for saying the president had “excessive expectations” about how quickly Congress could act on uprooting the Obama health care law.
Trump tweeted Wednesday, “Senator Mitch McConnell said I had “excessive expectations,” but I don’t think so. After 7 years of hearing Repeal & Replace, why not done?”
McConnell told a Rotary Club in Kentucky on Monday that Trump has “not been in this line of work before.” The Kentucky Republican said Trump’s “excessive expectations” are a reason why the public believes Congress has been unproductive this year.
Republicans have wanted to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care bill since its 2010 enactment.
Trump’s tweet was an unusually sharp reprimand of his party’s Senate leader.
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