AKIPRESS.COM - US President Donald Trump has demanded a make-or-break Friday vote on a new health care bill in the House of Representatives, reports BBC.

The American Healthcare Act is intended to replace parts of President Barack Obama's signature law.

But Thursday's vote was delayed because of opposition from some Republicans - despite Mr Trump's repeated attempts to persuade them to back the legislature.

He now says he wants to move on and vote - whatever the result on Friday.

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said this was exactly the message delivered to Republican lawmakers at a meeting behind closed doors on Thursday.

"For seven-and-a-half years we have been promising the American people that we will repeal and replace this broken law because it's collapsing and it's failing families, and tomorrow we're proceeding," House Speaker Paul Ryan said.

Meanwhile, Chris Collins, New York's Republican representative, said: "The president has said he wants a vote tomorrow, up or down".

"If for any reason it is down, we are just going to move forward with additional parts of his agenda."

Repealing and replacing so-called Obamacare was a major plank of Mr Trump's election campaign.

Thursday's vote postponement is a setback for the president who had insisted he would win the numbers to pass it through the lower chamber of Congress on that day.

Earlier on Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Mr Trump had made a "rookie's error for bringing this up on a day when clearly you're not ready".

The bill needs 215 votes to pass but ran into opposition mainly from conservative Republicans who believed it did not roll back enough of Mr Obama's Affordable Care Act.