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House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the GOP’s new health-care legislation, after Republicans didn’t have the votes to pass it.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan the GOP’s new health-care bill, after meeting with President Trump to tell him that Republicans didn’t have the votes to pass it. During a news conference, Ryan said it is a “” and that Republicans will now “move on with the rest of our agenda.” In an interview with , Trump Democrats for the bill’s failure, predicting they would want to make a deal his claim that communications from Trump and his transition team were collected incidentally by U.S. intelligence. TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline project, said the Trump administration to begin construction, reversing an Obama administration directive.

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