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As I have always said, let ObamaCare fail and then come together and do a great healthcare plan. Stay tuned!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2017

Even while he repeated the wish to let the health care law fail — one he also shared in March as the House's ultimately passed American Health Care Act replacement appeared headed toward collapse — Trump allowed for the possibility that the repeal fight \"will go on and we'll win.\"

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas is planning to move forward with a vote on the motion to proceed on the House-passed bill, a spokesperson told ABC News. With at least three Republican senators having voiced their opposition, the motion is poised not to pass.

In Trump's Tuesday morning tweets, he appeared to take aim at the four GOP senators who stood in opposition to the party's health care replacement bill: Collins, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas.

\"We were let down by all of the Democrats and a few Republicans,\" Trump tweeted. \"Most Republicans were loyal, terrific & worked really hard.\"

\"We will return!\" he added.

We were let down by all of the Democrats and a few Republicans. Most Republicans were loyal, terrific & worked really hard. We will return!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2017

The intraparty tension continued as Trump looked ahead to the 2018 midterm elections and the prospect of adding lawmakers to aid in the party's endeavors.

\"The way I look at it is, in '18, we're going to have to get some more people elected,\" he said. \"We have to go out, and we have to get more people elected that are Republican. And we have to probably pull in those people, those few people that voted against it. I don't know.\"

None of the senators whose stances led to the collapse of the party's efforts Monday and Tuesday are up for re-election in 2018.

Vice President Mike Pence joined Trump in criticizing Congress on Tuesday for failing to advance one of the administration's major legislative goals, seeming to portray allowing the current law to remain in place as untenable.

\"Inaction is not an option,\" Pence said in remarks to the National Retail Federation before the repeal-only plan too appeared to fail. \"Congress needs to step up, Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.\"

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said on the Senate floor, \"Make no mistake about it, passing repeal without a replacement would be a disaster. Our health care system would implode.\"

He added, \"The door to bipartisanship is open right now,\" though \"not with repeal\" — a notion Trump seemed open to during his White House remarks, though under different terms.

\"We'll let Obamacare fail, and then the Democrats are going to come to us, and they're going to say, 'How do we fix it?'\" said Trump.

ABC News' Mariam Khan and Alexander Mallin contributed to this report.

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