18 July 2017 - Republicans Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas said they would oppose the Republican health care overhaul, leaving Senate GOP leaders short of the votes needed to advance the bill and likely derailing President Donald Trump’s top legislative push of his first year in office.

In a stinging defection, Lee and Moran became the third and fourth Republicans to oppose the latest version of the GOP bill, which would roll back and replace much of the Affordable Care Act.

Senate Republicans had already lost two GOP votes, from Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine, and the new opposition from Messrs. Lee and Moran means Senate leaders don’t have enough support to advance the bill in a procedural vote.

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