Budget director says Trump wants another health-care vote before any other votes

Mick Mulvaney on CNN

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has made it clear he wants to "move on" from health care after the GOP's latest plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare stalled out — but President Trump "seems pretty stuck on the issue," said CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday in an interview with White House budget director Mick Mulvaney.

Mulvaney confirmed continued priority for health care is the Trump administration's official stance, telling Tapper Trump does want to see another vote on the issue before Congress votes on anything else. "In the White House's view, they can't move on in the Senate," he said. "You can't promise folks you're going to do something for seven years, and then not do it."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.