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Wednesday at the White House press briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer had an exchange with ABC’s Jon Karl over town hall participants concerns about President Donald Trump’s plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Partial transcript as follows:

Republicans continue to clash over Obamacare taxes as Congress plans to draft a repeal package.

Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan told Breitbart News that Republicans on Capitol Hill must remember the GOP promised over the last six political cycles to repeal Obamacare – legislation passed on nine lies Democrats told about President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare reform.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) expressed his soft feelings for DREAMers — young aliens brought into the country by their parents without legal sanction, and how they are to be handled Friday at a Capitol Hill press conference.

President Donald Trump promised that he would submit a plan to deal with Obamacare in early March, answering critics who said he was not dealing with the issue soon enough.

The Trump administration proposed a new rule to stabilize the individual and the small-group health insurance market.

Weak-kneed Republicans are starting to stammer, talk of delay and say we can’t repeal all of Obamacare. One GOP plan even keeps the Obamacare taxes. Another GOP plan says to blue states: “If you like Obamacare, you can keep it!” and red states will pay for it. Other GOP plans want to keep Obamacare subsidies but rename them refundable tax credits.

The health insurance giant Humana will exit the Obamacare exchanges in 2018.

President Trump’s executive order restraining Obamacare is already in effect at the IRS. The IRS will accept tax returns that do not declare health insurance status. Obamacare requires individuals to have a qualified level of health insurance or pay the

Let’s compare what President Trump has accomplished since the inauguration (with that enormous crowd!) with what congressional Republicans have done.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) walked out of an Obamacare meeting with Speaker Ryan over Medicaid expansion and the lack of progress to repeal Obamacare.

The House Freedom Caucus and several members of the Republican Study Committee urged Speaker Paul Ryan to adopt a more aggressive Obamacare repeal strategy.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow Monday to discuss the need for Congress to repeal Obamacare.

Now that Tom Price serves as Health and Human Services secretary, he can wield vast discretionary power to unwind Obamacare.

Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore says the Trump administration’s efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare is proof that no nation on earth “shits on its own” people the way the U.S. does.

It is gratifying to watch the media suddenly discover such concepts as the independence of the judiciary, conflicts of interest, and press freedom. For the eight years of President Barack Obama’s tenure, the media treated conservatives who raised those concerns as racists, or cranks, or both.

The strong posturing by California Democrats is setting the table for a major battle between President Trump and the Republican Congress on the one hand, and the ideologically left-wing leaders of the largest state in the union.

Capitol Hill conservatives Sen. Mike Lee (R.-Utah), House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R.-N.C.), and Meadow’s HFC predecessor Rep. James Jordan (R.-Ohio) at a Heritage Foundation-sponsored event told reporters Congress should repeal the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act–immediately.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer defended the pace of the Republican party on important issues like tax legislation and repealing Obamacare. Online journalist Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report criticized Republicans on Twitter for their sluggish momentum in Washington

Republican lawmakers held a closed-door meeting Tuesday to discuss protective measures and emergency exit strategies to safeguard them from growing violence and protests from progressives over their attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Despite giving residents another 48 hours this year to sign up for a mandatory health plan, Covered California saw first-time enrollments fall to 412,000, down 6 percent from 439,000 last year, according to exchange spokesman James Scullary.

On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Alex Marlow spoke with Ann Coulter, author of In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! and Adios, America: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole.

President Donald Trump made big news on January 31, when he met in the White House with top pharmaceutical company executives. Or at least he deserved to make big news, because the issues he raised in the West Wing’s Roosevelt Room will prove to be central to the health, and wealth, of every American.

Former presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will debate the future of Obamacare in a live moderated debate on CNN, the network has announced.

As we await the debut of the Trump administration’s healthcare policy, perhaps it will be helpful, providing a useful context, if we step back and consider the wisdom of the 19th century free-market economist, Frédéric Bastiat. In 1848, in an essay entitled “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen,” Bastiat argued that shortsighted people look only at immediate and obvious effects, which could be harmful, while farsighted people look to longer-term and not-so-obvious effects—which could be beneficial.

When all is said and done, the Trumpcare that replaces Obamacare will reflect the interests of Trump voters, and the middle class. It will thus be different from past efforts, coming from both sides of the aisle, to devise a workable form of health insurance.

\GOP leaders in Congress are delaying plans to kill off Obamacare until they develop an alternative and popular healthcare support program.

On January 25 Gun Owners of America (GOA) released a list of Obama-era gun controls which President Trump can undo.

Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) has promised a step-by-step process to replace Obamacare, but says it can’t be very fast.

Like millions of Americans who are paying thousands of dollars a year for health insurance no doctors will take, I would love to be flying to Washington this week, pleading with members of Congress, spearheading letter-writing campaigns and appearing as a witness, to tell everyone about my experiences with Obamacare.

Everyone knew that Obamacare wouldn’t be repealed without a fight—and everyone was right. But how rough of a rumble will it be? That’s the real question.

In his first executive order, President Donald Trump called for federal agencies to “ease the burden” of Obamacare.

The U.S. Bishops have written to all members of Congress “urging members of the House and Senate to provide a replacement plan” to the Affordable Care Act.

President Obama has spent his final months in office giving juvenile speeches full of excuses for why nothing bad since 2009 was his fault, while everything good was his personal handiwork. In truth, everyone paying attention can see the signs of a diminished America. A new Gallup poll finds Americans believing their country slid backwards in 14 out of 19 policy domains, with the worst deterioration in the national debt, crime, income inequality, and race relations. Here is the state of America after eight years of Obama.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) summed up the failures of Obamacare and highlighted the distortions of Democrats claiming the GOP’s plan to repeal President Obama’s healthcare law will be dangerous to millions of Americans who have gained perhaps nothing more than an insurance card on the exchanges.

Dr. Lawrence Schlachter, neurosurgeon and author of the book Malpractice: A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health-Care System Puts Patients at Risk, spoke with Breitbart News Daily host Raheem Kassam on Monday about both his book and the concept of repealing Obamacare.