• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, listens as Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, speaks during a news conference after a Republican policy meeting luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday. Senate Republicans gave up on their last-ditch proposal to repeal Obamacare as opposition in their own ranks ended months of fruitless efforts to gut the Affordable Care Act. | BLOOMBERG
    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, listens as Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, speaks during a news conference after a Republican policy meeting luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday. Senate Republicans gave up on their last-ditch proposal to repeal Obamacare as opposition in their own ranks ended months of fruitless efforts to gut the Affordable Care Act. | BLOOMBERG

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WASHINGTON – A Republican attempt to dismantle Obamacare fell apart in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday for the second time in two months in a serious defeat for President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda.

The party was unable to win enough support from its own senators for a bill to repeal the 2010 health care law and decided not to put it to a vote, several Republicans said.

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