President Donald Trump signed an order Friday on Obamacare that his press secretary, Sean Spicer, said would require government agencies to "ease the burden of the law."
Spicer provided no additional details, and the White House did not immediately provide the order after Trump signed it in the Oval Office.
Trump ran for president on a vow to repeal Obamacare, and Congress has passed a budget resolution allowing for a repeal to advance. Trump has said that a replacement plan will provide "insurance for everybody," and he said in a Jan. 11 news conference that he wanted repeal and a replacement policy to be passed "essentially simultaneously."
Spicer said Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, would issue a memo to government agencies ordering a freeze on new regulations.
Trump also signed commissions for Defense Secretary James Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who were confirmed by the Senate late Friday. They will be sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence, Spicer said.
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