And he seemed to acknowledge his lack of Washington experience: “We learned a lot about the vote-getting process.”
Privately, the president said he regretted going along with Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s plan
to pursue health care before a tax overhaul, another of his legislative priorities.
Publicly, Mr. Trump immediately blamed Democrats for the bill’s failure — even though Republicans control both the House and the Senate.
He also said he was “disappointed” and “surprised”
that he had not been able to get more members of the hard-line Freedom Caucus to sign on to the plan.
The largest group of holdouts came from the House Freedom Caucus, a group of about 30 of the most conservative House members.
Political groups backed by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch and other powerful conservative networks came out strongly against the bill
