Fox News's Meghan McCain said Wednesday that Republicans shouldn't expect any "participation trophies" for their unsuccessful efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

"I think people collectively are very angry, because they elected President Trump on repeal-and-replace, one of the major issues," McCain, thedaughterof Sen. John McCainJohn McCainMcCain diagnosis looms over GOP healthcare talks Graham on McCain cancer diagnosis: 'This disease has never had a more worthy opponent' Lawmakers send Sen. McCain well wishes after cancer diagnosis MORE (R-Ariz.), said. "And yesterday, I thought the messaging was very strange, just sort of saying, 'We're gonna let it fail, this isn't on me, we almost got it."

"There are no ... participation trophies for this," she added.

Trump said Tuesday he and congressional Republicans would "let ObamaCare fail" and that the GOP would not take responsibility for the current healthcare law. Trump made the comments following the collapse of GOP efforts in the Senate to advance a repeal-and-replace bill.

"We're not going to own it. I'm not going to own it," Trump told reporters. "I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it. We'll let ObamaCare fail and then the Democrats are going to come to us."

Trump has since called for the Senate to continue work on a healthcare reform plan, though his comments Tuesday cast doubt on Republicans' ability to fulfill their seven-year promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Despite holding the White House and majorities in the House and the Senate, Republicans have struggled in their efforts to overhaul the country's healthcare system.

House Republicans narrowly passed their version of a healthcare reform measure in May. But in the Senate, GOP lawmakers have faced even stronger infighting over how to tackle healthcare.

Opposition from key moderates and conservatives effectively killed the Senate's bill on Monday, leaving uncertain the future of Republicans' healthcare reform efforts.

Updated at 3:12 p.m.

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