Sean Spicer: We Expect Health Care Vote Around 3:30 Today

Press Sec. on the House voting on healthcare bill today: “I expect a vote somewhere around the 3:30, 4 o’clock hour” https://t.co/n7TqA3VDnW pic.twitter.com/A9GN4jtK5F

— ABC News (@ABC) March 24, 2017

The White House and Republican leaders are scrambling to get enough votes to pass the American Health Care Act in the House. There are reports that it may go down if it’s put up for a vote, due to resistance from the House Freedom Caucus and other Republicans.

The vote was expected to take place yesterday, but it was postponed. According to multiple reports, Speaker Paul Ryan went to the White House this afternoon to relay the message that they simply don’t have the votes.

But The Washington Post‘s report says that Ryan met with Trump around 1:30 pm ET, minutes after Sean Spicer said the White House still expects “a vote somewhere around the 3:30, 4:00 hour.”

Watch above, via ABC News.

UPDATE –– 3:34 pm ET: Around 3:30 the vote was postponed.

[image via screengrab]

——

Follow Josh Feldman on Twitter: @feldmaniac

New: The Mediaite One-Sheet "Newsletter of Newsletters"
Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. Subscribe now!