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Trump: ‘Thank Heaven’ The Obamacare Mandate Is Gone

01.30.18 | 9:30 pm

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: U.S. President Donald J. Trump (L) stands at the podium as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (C) and Speaker of the House U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) (R) look on during the State of the Unio... WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: U.S. President Donald J. Trump (L) stands at the podium as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (C) and Speaker of the House U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) (R) look on during the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the first State of the Union address given by U.S. President Donald Trump and his second joint-session address to Congress. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) MORE LESS

President Donald Trump diverged from his script slightly Tuesday when he exclaimed “Thank heaven” that individual mandate at the center of Obamacare — seemingly pronounced “Opamacare,” this time — had been repealed as part of Republicans’ tax bill.

“We repealed the core of the disastrous Obamacare,” he said during his first State of the Union address. “The individual mandate is now gone. Thank heaven.”

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Matt Shuham is a reporter in TPM’s New York office. Prior to joining TPM, he was associate editor of The National Memo and an editorial intern at Rolling Stone.

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rickjones says:

January 30, 2018

“Thank heaven…for little girls - like Miss Teen USA and stormy kinds of things.”
dickweed says:

January 31, 2018

Don’t know why
There’s no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my gal and I ain’t together
Keeps rainin’ all the time…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQcz3mOkuIY

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