Koch brothers group set to boost conservative candidates, policies with $400 million between now and 2018
By Dan Gallo Published June 25, 2017
Fox News Republican candidates will be bolstered by up to $400 million of outside spending from the Koch brothers' network of donors in the lead up to the 2018 midterms, the group said Saturday.
“Three-hundred million to $400 million for this cycle for politics and policy -- we believe we’re headed to the high end of that range,” said Tim Phillips, who heads Americans for Prosperity, a group funded by conservative billionaire financiers Charles and David Koch.
“What we’re urging Republicans in the House and the Senate to do is to be bold, to go big,” Phillips said, emphasizing tax and health care reform. “It gives them the opportunity to point to real accomplishments when they get to 2018.”
But it remains to be seen whether congressional Republicans will have major accomplishments on which to run, as GOP senators attempt to produce a health care bill that can pass muster with conservatives, without losing support from moderates.
A major sticking point for conservatives is congressional Republicans' effort to slowly phase out expansion of Medicaid, a program that they say is overburdened.
“To simply say we’re just going to do a slight nip and tuck to a program that, because of Obamacare, has added millions and millions of people, is frankly immoral,” Phillips said.
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