Republicans delay Senate healthcare vote

  28 June 2017    Read: 1054
Republicans delay Senate healthcare vote
US Senate Republicans have delayed a vote on their healthcare bill until after next week's 4 July holiday.

The announcement by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell deals a blow to their promise to replace Obamacare.

Five Republican senators had vowed to oppose the bill, and the party could only afford to lose two votes to get it passed in the upper chamber.

US president Donald Trump has invited all Senate Republicans for a Tuesday afternoon meeting at the White House.

A similar version to the bill has already passed the House.

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