“Why, why, why… ?”

In a speech Monday at the National Press Club, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell puzzled over the GOP’s plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act without having replacement legislation at the ready. “Why do you want to want to repeal it without telling what we’re going to do?” she said. “That’s not what we owe the American people.”

Her question—and her whole speech—are part of a coordinated campaign by the outgoing Administration to protect the signature healthcare legislation from Republican leaders, who are already abuzz with plans for a swift repeal once President-elect Donald Trump takes office January 20.