Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Jeff Flake got assurances for their votes. Someone forgot to clear it with conservatives in the other chamber.
By Andrew Desiderio
By Andrew Desiderio
House conservatives are already indicating that they're prepared to
block some of the key legislative promises that Senate Republicans
demanded in exchange for their votes on tax reform legislation.
Those
promises materialized in the frantic final hours of the tax debate last
week, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) gave Sens. Susan
Collins (R-ME) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) assurances that some of their
personal legislative priorities would be dealt with in exchange for
their votes.
Collins said she received a promise that the Senate
would consider two bipartisan pieces of legislation that would
ostensibly mitigate the negative effects that could come from the tax
bill’s repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate. Flake said he received a
“firm commitment from Senate Leadership and the administration” to work
on a permanent protections for the soon-to-be-ended Obama-era program
that shields children of undocumented immigrants.
Both senators
ended up voting for the tax bill, giving it the 51 “yes” votes it needed
to pass. Within days, however, reality began setting in that those
promises might have been flimsy at best.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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