A vote on President Donald Trump’s new health care bill in the House of Representatives has been delayed.
The postponement is a setback for the president who had insisted he would win the numbers to pass it through the lower chamber of Congress on Thursday.
The American Healthcare Act is intended to replace parts of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law.
Repealing and replacing so-called Obamacare was a major plank of Mr Trump’s election campaign.
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that Republicans would still be meeting on Thursday evening but that the plan now was for a House vote on Friday, following a debate.
A White House official said that “the vote will be in the morning to avoid voting at 3AM… We feel this should be done in the light of day, not in the wee hours of the night and we are confident the bill will pass in the morning”.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Mr Trump had made a “rookie’s error for bringing this up on a day when clearly you’re not ready”.
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