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Top GOP senator: Republicans 'shot their wad' on healthcare

"We’re in tax now. As far as I’m concerned, they shot their wad on health care and that’s the way it is. I’m sick of it," said Sen. Orrin Hatch.

Sen. Orrin Hatch.

Sen. Orrin Hatch is ready to move on from the Republican healthcare debacle.

The Utah senator and chair of the Senate Finance Committee told Politico in a story published Monday that the GOP botched its chance at any repeal and replace of Obamacare for now.

And he had a colorful way of saying it is time to move on to tax reform.

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Matt Whitlock, Hatch's communications director, joked that the quote was in reference to the Civil War because that's when Hatch, 83, entered the Senate. He also tweeted a link to a Washington Post article entitled "

Hatch's comments reveal a growing sentiment among higher-ranking members of the GOP caucus: that the divisons that plagued the debate over the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) will likely not be solved anytime soon.

Instead of toiling over differences, Republicans want to instead focus on tax reform, where there is broader agreement within the party.

But the strategy of moving on has been complicated by the fact that President Donald Trump and many in the administration are continuing to pressure Republican lawmakers to complete some sort of Obamacare repeal, to the chagrin of some GOP leaders.

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