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