Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) said President Donald Trump is being “ill-advised” on Obamacare, saying the bill proposed by House GOP leadership falls woefully short during an interview Wednesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

Brat blasted Republican leaders in Congress for unveiling a proposal that fails to fulfill the promise of completely repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. Insisting that Congress can technically repeal all of Obamacare, the Virginia congressman said Republicans are “goofing it all up.”

“Most of it hinges around the word ‘repeal,’ and I think President Trump has been ill-advised. They’re telling him this is a repeal. It is not.”

“Most of it hinges around the word ‘repeal,’ and I think President Trump has been ill-advised. They’re telling him this is a repeal. It is not. It does not repeal,” Brat said.

Brat predicted that Trump will soon hear the “wails that are going to come up” from the American people over what he considers an unacceptable piece of legislation.

“[Trump’s] not a policy wonk on health care, right? He’s just a great leader — he’s going to put the heat under all of us to get a lot of stuff done,” Brat said. “He’s reshaping the world. He’s reshaping the modern media and press and disciplining [them]. He’s getting immigration done right. The tax piece is going to be great. We’ve got to get there. But this is wonk stuff.”

Saying that Republicans would never vote for the new bill if Democrats had put it forward, Brat asked why the bill is even being considered in the first place.

“It’s politics. It’s the press. It’s pressure put on Republican members in weak districts. It’s about money and special interests. It’s about everything except the best policy for health care,” Brat said.

Although Trump has expressed his support for the House bill, Brat stressed the president didn’t “fully endorse it.”

“[Trump] said this bill is the first step. We’re going to negotiate … So I still see plenty of room for negotiation, and I hope he does because I don’t want him owning it,” Brat said. “If he owns the current bill, it’s going to be a weight around his neck … and it will weigh down his presidency because it will not reduce the cost of health care. And he’s been assured that it will. And that bill will not do it.”

Brat noted the House’s current bill does not eliminate the insurance regulations and allows Medicaid expansion, though slowed, to continue with “astronomical” costs.

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“And the major piece that people need to understand — it’s a federal program. You do not want the federal government running your health care, right?” Brat said. “The major issue is we have to return this power back down to the states and to the people, and to the doctors and the hospitals and regulate them and let them provide the care that’s best for you as an individual. And it’s just that simple. But we’re not doing it. The bill right now does not do that.”

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Although House Republicans have promised that many of these changes excluded in Phase 1 will occur in “Phase 3” of a three-step repeal and replace process, Brat said on a scale of one to 10, the likelihood this will actually happen is a “two.”

“And, what your listeners need to know is we all voted for it when it didn’t count,” Brat continued. “The entire Senate Republicans and all House Republican members voted for the 2015 full repeal of Obamacare. And now that it counts, we’re goofing it all up … We’re putting up basically another entitlement program.”

“And nothing in Obamacare had anything to do with getting us a better health system, lowering prices for the people out there, reducing medical care costs. None of that has happened,” Brat added. “And right now, I’ve got a terrible sinking feeling that we are going to do the exact same thing.”