Healthcare is just the starting point, theres the Russian Investigation, questions about whether the attorney general will keep his job. Reporter theres so much going around, it makes your head spin, but as you mentioned off the top, its important to delineate the senators not voting on a specific healthcare bill per se, but rather just begin debate about the potential options for repealing and replacing obamacare. Were now one step closer to liberating our citizens from this obamacare nightmare. Reporter President Trump at a Youngstown Ohio rally touting the gop successful healthcare debate vote after republicans reached a senate majority. You think thats easy . Reporter democrats pledging they wont give up on keeping obamacare. We have lost an important battle today. [ applause ] reporter john mccain receiving a standing owe vague after returning from his own sick bed to cass his critical vote. My service here is the most important job ive had in my life. Reporter congressional reade
A good morning to you all. We begin with President Trump back in washington after venturing onto the campaign stage. Yes, yet again. The president held a rally in youngstown, ohio, last night where he ticked off his accomplishments and claimed that no other president had done anywhere near what hes done in his First Six Months in office. Well, after a day of explosive tweets and statements against his own attorney general, he talked about his ability to be president ial. With the exception of the late great abraham lincoln, i can be more president ial than any president thats ever held this office. That i can tell you. All right. Quite a claim there. The president also did a victory lap on health care after the senate cleared the way for the debate. But just a short time later the effort to repeal and replace obamacare suffered a crushing blow. Yeah, last night a comprehensive proposal to replace major portions of the Affordable Care act failed in the senate. The vote came just hours a
And military experts, the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u. S. Military. Our military must be focussed on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs. In the military would entail, thank you. Transgender Service Members have been able to serve openly in the military since last year. When defense secretary ash carter ended the ban. There are between 2500 and 7,000 transgender Service Members on active duty and anywhere from 1500 to 4,000 in the reserves according to iran corporation study. And that same study determined allowing transgender people to serve openly would have only minimal impact on readiness and health care costs. Todays announcement seemed to come to a surprise to even the pentagon which is deferring all questions to the white house. California congresswoman and House Democratic leader nancy pelosi slammed the president in a Statement Released just a
Be followed if you really want a solution. Reporter it was a total reversal from the june 2016 tweet saying thank you to the lgbt community. I will fight for you. Caitlyn jenner who endorsed mr. Trump in the general election tweeted there are 15,000 patriot yachtic Transgender Americans many the u. S. Military fighting for all of us. What happened to your promise to fight for them . Youre not worried about what someone Sexual Orientation or identity is. Youre worried about if thaifr got your back. Reporter the pentagon today not issuing a comment or a statement on this but a navy captain said they are willing to work closely with the president on this matter. One of the president s tweets this morning talked about the medical costs of allowing transgender people to serve in the military. Do we have any numbers on that . Reporter thats right. He is very concerned about the increasing costs of medical care in the military. The president estimates it would go up by between 2. 4 million an
President should follow. Theres a process in place for the department of defense, for congress, for public comment. And thats the process that should be followed if you really want a solution. This policy is far from settled. To learn the latest changes, download the abc7 news app. Youll receive push alerts like the one we sent out this morning. Happening right now, it is nail biting time as 55,000 fans converge of levi stadium for the game between team usa and jamaica. It starts in about 25 minutes, which puts it at the height of the evening commute. David louie is live outside levi stadium. How is the traffic situation right now . Reporter well, the traffic is doing pretty well. Weve been monitoring the traffic cams, and people did a good job of staggering their arrivals so they wouldnt create log jams. You can see people are streaming in for the 6 30 game, and a lot of people are hoping for a team usa victory. Usa usa usa reporter pride in team usa is breaking out in the parking lot