Trump promises Obamacare replacement, border wall and Supreme Court nominee
By Stephen Dinan and Tom Howell Jr.
The Washington Times
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Republicans will have a replacement for Obamacare ready to go at the same time they repeal the massive health law, President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday, raising expectations for the GOP and its top priority in the new Congress.
At his first press conference in nearly six months Mr. Trump said he thought about ignoring Obamacare this year, predicting it would collapse on its own and be a major political problem for Democrats. But he said the GOP will push ahead anyway.
He also said Vice President-elect Mike Pence is working on plans for the border wall, said the government will start doing a better job of controlling spending by making companies bid on contracts, including negotiating better prices for prescription drugs bought through government health programs, and he repeated his vow that companies who move operations outside the U.S. will pay a “border tax.”
The president-elect also said he’ll have a Supreme Court nominee within two weeks of being inaugurated.
While most of the questions revolved around reports of Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump detailed a quick start to his agenda soon after he’s inaugurated on Jan. 20.
He said there will be a slew of “signings” — presumably executive orders and other actions undoing much of the Obama administration’s executive actions — on the Monday after his inauguration.
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