Moments after their hopes of undoing Obamacare unraveled, President Donald Trump and top Republicans said in unison that they're moving on to another ambitious goal — overhauling the U.S. tax code.
“We will probably start going very, very strongly for the big tax cuts and tax reform,” Trump said to reporters Friday after the House bill was pulled from a scheduled floor vote. “That will be next.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters that Republicans will proceed with tax legislation — and said he met with Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin earlier on Friday to discuss taxes. Ryan sounded a note of caution: The health bill's failure “does make tax reform more difficult,” he said, “but it doesn't in any way make it impossible.”
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