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Posted: 2017-02-19T01:17:46Z | Updated: 2017-02-19T03:24:44Z

Addressing an adoring crowd of supporters in Melbourne, Florida, on Saturday, President Donald Trump promised new action to restrict immigration next week, and a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act soon after that.

Ive ordered the construction of a great border wall, which will start very shortly. And Ive taken dramatic action to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country, Trump said at the rally in a hangar at the Orlando-Melbourne International Airport, drawing some of the loudest cheers of his speech.

Trump acknowledged, however, that a federal appeals court had halted his earlier attempt to ban refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the country. After criticizing the ruling by the panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, he announced his intention to proceed with alternative plans.

We will do something next week. I think youll be impressed, Trump said. Lets see what happens. Heres the bottom line: Weve got to keep our country safe.

It was not clear if Trump meant that his administration will try to challenge the 9th Circuits ruling at the Supreme Court, or if hell instead issue a modified executive order that might avoid some of the legal challenges of the directive he issued late last month.

Trump went on to cite alleged instances of refugee-perpetrated crimes and terrorism in Europe as evidence that the U.S. should adopt a more restrictive refugee policy.

Naming a host of different European countries and cities, Trump suggested that there had been a terror attack in Sweden the previous night.

You look at whats happening in Germany, you look at whats happening last night in Sweden. Sweden. Who would believe this? Sweden, he said. They took in large numbers. Theyre having problems like they never thought possible.

Many observers promptly pointed out that no such attack had occurred in the Scandinavian nation.

He also repeated his false claim that the United States has already let in thousands of people who there was no way to vet.

In fact, refugees undergo the most rigorous vetting process of any immigrants admitted to the United States, often waiting upwards of two years to be cleared for entry.

Trumps now-halted travel ban froze the admission of all refugees for 120 days and indefinitely barred refugees from Syria.

But Trump reiterated his plan to create so-called safe zones to protect civilians in Syria, a controversial proposal that he cut from an earlier draft of his travel ban.

Were gonna have the Gulf States pay for those safe zones. They have nothing but money, Trump said Saturday.

The president also claimed that he would unveil a proposal for replacing the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, in two weeks.

We are going to be submitting, in a couple of weeks, a great health care plan thats going to take the place of the disaster known as Obamacare, Trump said, prompting applause. It will be repealed and replaced.

Trumps professed timetable echoes comments he and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) made at separate press conferences on Thursday, when they claimed the White House and Congress would be rolling out their replacement plan some time next month .

On Saturday, Trump did not provide much additional detail about what the plan will entail, other than to say, Our plan will be much better health care at a much lower cost.

Most experts believe there is virtually no way to maintain levels of insurance coverage, reduce costs and ensure quality of care without some combination of the regulations, subsidies and individual insurance mandate that form the nucleus of the ACA.

Congressional Republicans initially planned to repeal the landmark health care law when they took office in January and replace it later at a time to be determined. Angry constituents have since accosted dozens of Republican members of Congress at town hall meetings , demanding to know how they would replace the law.

In response to public uproar and Trumps own admonitions, they have slowed down their efforts to deliberate over how best to execute the laws repeal.