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   President Donald Trump responded to the failure of the Republican health care bill on Friday by calling for a change to Senate rules so that 51 votes are needed to pass legislation instead of 60 — even though the bill that went down early that morning had, in fact, only needed 51 votes to pass, but didn’t get them. 
   
   “If Republicans are going to pass great future legislation in the Senate, they must immediately go to a 51-vote majority, not senseless 60,” Trump tweeted, several hours after three Senate Republicans broke with their caucus to vote against the GOP’s scaled-down attempt at repealing the Affordable Care Act. 
   
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   The bill got 49 votes and needed 50, plus Vice President Mike Pence breaking a tie. 
   
   A few minutes later, the president followed up, acknowledging that the legislation up for a vote this week had needed just 51 votes under the process Senate leaders were using to pass it, but reiterated that he wants to see the legislative filibuster changed. 
   
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   “Even though parts of health care could pass at 51, some really good things need 60,” he said. “So many great future bills & budgets need 60 votes.” 
   
   Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said repeatedly that he has no interest in doing away with the 60-vote threshold on most legislation. And the GOP has struggled to pass its agenda outside of that. Three separate Obamacare repeal measures failed to garner 50 Republican votes this week. 
   
   The final “skinny” measure, which was regarded as the GOP’s best shot at passing something even as many members criticized it and said they did not actually want it to become law, prompted Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) to vote no alongside all the Democrats and independents. 
   
   McCain, whose deciding vote came as a surprise, has called for Republicans to pursue health care reform in a bipartisan fashion instead of trying to push through a bill on a party-line, simple majority vote. 
   
   ||||| Trump calls for a Senate rules change, but it would not have saved Obamacare repeal 1:32 PM ET Fri, 28 July 2017 | 00:52 
   
   President Donald Trump on Friday pushed the Senate to change its rules — even though the sweeping revision he proposed would not have saved Republicans' latestdoomed Obamacare repealeffort. 
   
   After the early Friday vote, Trump in a tweet called on the chamber to change procedures and require only a 51-vote majority on legislation — getting rid of the filibuster for bills. He contended that the Senate should do so "if Republicans are going to pass great future legislation in the Senate." 
   
   "Even though parts of healthcare could pass at 51, some really good things need 60. So many great future bills & budgets need 60 votes," Trump said in a subsequent tweet. 
   
   The president has called for the Senate to get rid of the legislative filibuster multiple times before, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has expressed no interest in the change. 
   
   The Senate aimed to pass its "skinny" Obamacare repeal bill through the budget reconciliation process, meaning the measure only needed a 51-vote majority. Three of the 52 Republican senators defected in a dramatic floor vote on a procedural measure for the plan, sinking it by a 49-51 vote. 
   
   At least three separate proposals to approve some form of repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act failed to get the support of 50 Republican senators. 
   
   Trump early Friday contended in a tweet that the senators who voted against the measure "let the American people down." He called for them to "let ObamaCare implode, then deal." 
   
   The president has repeatedly threatened to let the law collapse, and his administration has already taken some steps to undermine it. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rebuked him for the tweet Friday, saying Trump made a threat to "hurt innocent people" because he was "angry" about a political defeat. 
   
   Trump, who never held elected office before winning the presidency, has repeatedly expressed frustration with the pace of policy. 
   
   Other key measures such as government spending bills will require Senate Republicans to win over at least eight Democrats to reach 60 votes. ||||| Tweet with a location 
   
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target: – President Trump's proposed solution after the failure of the GOP health care bill Friday: Change Senate rules so that only 51 yes votes, not 60, are needed for legislation to pass. Trump has made this pitch before, though it would not have saved the GOP's health care bill overnight—it managed only 49 votes, with three Republicans joining Democrats in voting no. Trump followed up his initial tweet to acknowledge that fact, Politico reports: First tweet, 9:46am: If Republicans are going to pass great future legislation in the Senate, they must immediately go to a 51 vote majority, not senseless 60... Second tweet, 10am: ...Even though parts of healthcare could pass at 51, some really good things need 60. So many great future bills & budgets need 60 votes.... As CNBC explains, the Senate was using the budget reconciliation process to pass the repeal bill, which is why it only required a 51-vote majority. Trump has called repeatedly for the Senate to change the filibuster rules for all bills, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has so far disagreed.