WH Blames Democrats For Ongoing Failure Of GOP’s O’Care Repeal Effort

Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders pauses while speaking during an off-camera press briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday blamed Democratic lawmakers for the multi-stage failure of Senate Republicans’ partisan effort to repeal Obamacare.

“I would say Democrats,” Sanders said in response to a question about why the Senate proposal failed Monday night.

“But they’re in the minority,” a reporter pointed out. Defections from Republican senators sunk the Senate proposal.

“They’re responsible for passing Obamacare,” Sanders replied.

She claimed Democrats were “unwilling to work with Republicans in any capacity to help fix” Obamacare.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in June said passing a repeal bill would “have to be a Republicans-only exercise.”

Sanders nevertheless claimed that Democrats have “been the ones that have been completely unwilling to even come to the table to be part of the discussion.”

Asked whether Trump is frustrated with Republican lawmakers who control both chambers of Congress and have failed to muster votes to pass a repeal, Sanders said there is “a small number of people that he’s probably frustrated with.”

“I think the thing that’s dead here is Obamacare,” she said. “You’re speaking as if this is over and done and it certainly isn’t.”

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  1. Avatar for tena tena says:

    Damn right! And Hooray for us!

  2. WTF?
    Shakes head
    The only surprise here was that Ol’ Huckabee Sanders was not hit by a Zot of lightning
    It takes balls to get up in front of a country and lie like that

  3. In next week’s exciting episode of “Why You Ackin’ So Cray-Cray,” the WH blames the Cubs for not helping the Indians win the World Series.

  4. Avatar for zsak zsak says:

    Because Democrats actually care for people.

  5. Not really. 40%+ will believe her.

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