McConnell says Senate Republicans could review Obamacare's repeal

Republicans may again try to repeal Obamacare if they win enough seats in US elections next month, Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday that the unsuccessful health in 2017.

In a forecast of political goals for 2019 tempered by uncertainty over the awarding of legislative elections, McConnell also blamed costly social programs, such as social security and social security. Medicare, to be at the origin of the country's growing indebtedness.

On November 6, the Americans will vote for candidates in the Senate and the House of Representatives.

McConnell's Republicans now hold majority control of both houses. Democrats will try to control the races for the 435 seats in the House and one-third of the 100 seats in the Senate.

Despite their dominance of Congress and the White House, Republicans drastically failed last year to overturn former president Barack Obama's health care law, known as the 39; Obamacare. McConnell called it "the only disappointment of this Congress from a Republican point of view".

He said, "If the votes were to start from scratch, we would do it, but that depends on what will happen in a few weeks … We are not happy with the way Obamacare works."

President Donald Trump is also supportive of the removal of Obamacare, which Republicans have criticized for its costly and unnecessary intrusion into the health care of Americans. About 20 million Americans have taken out health insurance as part of this program, a major legislative breakthrough for Obama and the Democrats.

In an interview with Reuters, McConnell said in an interview on social programs: "Pension rights are the long-term drivers of debt."

Social programs that help the poor, the elderly, the unemployed, veterans and the disabled are often referred to as "rights" in Washington. These also include Medicaid.

"We all know that there will be no solution to this unless there is a kind of big bipartite market that allows very popular very popular programs to be maintained." it's not produced since the 80s, "he said. added.

"But at some point, we will have to sit on a bipartisan basis and address the long-term factors of debt."

The Treasury Department announced this week a budget deficit of $ 779 billion in 2018, the highest since 2012.

The report cited rising military spending as the reason for the increase and showed that the government's revenue was stable after the strong tax cuts imposed by Republicans late last year, despite a growth and rising spending levels.

McConnell said Republicans would look closely at funding discretionary national programs next year, saying he had reluctantly agreed to increase discretionary spending this year to get Democrats to accept more military spending.

"We had to negotiate with the Democrats and spend more in the country than I would have preferred," McConnell said.

"We will have to sit down again and decide what we will do with our annual discretionary spending after the start of the year and see what kind of agreements we can conclude.

Trump asked his office Wednesday to cut their budgets by 5%.