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WASHINGTON
US President Donald Trump told a group of senators on Tuesday that he expected lawmakers would be able to reach a deal on healthcare, without offering specifics on how they would do it or what had changed since a healthcare reform bill was pulled last week for insufficient support.
"I have no doubt that that's going to happen very quickly,"Trump said at a bipartisan reception held for senators and their spouses at the White House.
"I think it's going to happen because we've all been promising - Democrat, Republican - we've all been promising that to the American people,"he said.
A Republican plan backed by Trump to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system was pulled on Friday after it failed to garner enough support to pass the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
Trump did not mention that failure at the reception nor did he offer specifics on how he planned for lawmakers to reach a consensus on a healthcare bill that would repeal and replace Obamacare.
