There are strong rumors that the individual mandate repeal will be added to the Senate tax cut bill.
@SenJohnThune CONFIRMS:
-Individual mandate repeal will be added to tax bill in SFC.
-They have 50 votes on the floor.
-Passing Alexander-Murray alongside (not within the tax bill) is part of the deal.— Mike DeBonis (@mikedebonis) November 14, 2017
If they had 50 votes for this, it would have passed in July. But you know what to do; call the Senate.
More importantly, I want to look at errors underlying the assumption that Alexander-Murray will pass with 60 votes in the Senate in this scenario. That won’t happen. Alexander-Murray is dead. Reality has overtaken the need for a deal to appropriate CSR funding. There could be a deal on 1332 waivers and catastrophic plans but not one on CSR funding.
I think it is fundamentally an issue with baseline confusion. Let’s just follow the money on the first step.
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