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Trump’s Still Trying to Kill Obamacare—but He and His Party Have Given Up on Replacing It

REPEAL AND TAKE A BREAK

Republicans never were able to pass a replacement bill. But they did try. Now, they’re not even doing that.

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By now, congressional Republicans are largely finished with their fruitless, decade-long quest to repeal and replace Obamacare. It, however, is not finished with them.

Like a zombie, that effort has lurched forward without the buy-in of congressional Republicans—aided, this time, by the branch of government that sits across the street: the...

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