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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday evening designed to "ease the burden" of Obamacare.

The order "directs the departments and agencies to ease the burden of Obamacare as we transition to repeal and replace," White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters. It was not clear exactly what the order instructs the federal agencies to do.

Trump pledged throughout his presidential campaign and transition period to repeal and replace Obamacare. His campaign website vowed to ask Congress "to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare" on Day One of his administration, which began with his swearing-in Friday afternoon.

Congress has already done its part to start repealing the health care law from the legislative branch through what's known as reconciliation, a budget procedural rule that allows the Senate to skirt the 60-vote filibuster threshold.

Trump, seated at his new desk inside the Oval Office, signed the order alongside commissions for retired Gen. James Mattis and retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, his Senate-confirmed nominees for defense secretary and homeland security secretary, respectively.


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