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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told President Donald Trump the Senate will not revisit health care reform before the 2020 elections, the Kentucky Republican said Tuesday.
supporting a federal judge’s ruling that Obamacare is unconstitutional.
An estimated 30 million people would lose their coverage if Obamacare is repealed without another plan in place. However, McConnell said he doesn’t suspect the courts will strike down Obamacare “anytime soon.”
“There’s no point in pushing the panic button,” he said. “The court system takes a long time to resolve these issues.”
When asked if McConnell saw any difference between himself and the president on health care, the majority leader said, “Not any longer.”
The senator added that Trump accepted the Senate would not focus on health care for now and “that he would be developing a plan that he would take to the American people during the 2020 campaign.” Trump would suggest the proposal is what he would advocate “in a second term if there were a Republican Congress,” McConnell said.
The GOP currently holds 197 seats in the House, meaning it would need 21 more to win a majority.
The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
— CNBC’s Christina Wilkie contributed to this report.