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Senate Republicans Open Fight Over Obama Health Law

The New York Times: WASHINGTON — The bitter divide over the fate of the Affordable Care Act played out at the highest levels on Wednesday as President Obama urged Democrats on Capitol Hill to fight to maintain his signature domestic achievement while President-elect Donald J. Trump warned Republicans to let Mr. Obama’s imperiled program “fall of its own weight.”

As the Senate began debate over the fate of the law, Republicans made clear, more powerfully and explicitly than before, their intention to repeal it. Vice President-elect Mike Pence, standing with Speaker Paul D. Ryan in the Capitol, said the repeal would be “the first order of business” for the new administration.

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