Sen. Murkowski hasn’t ruled out voting for tax bill with Obamacare mandate repeal

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Hot Air
John Sexton
Nov. 17, 2017

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So it seemed pretty clear Murkowski was saying the GOP could only have her vote to repeal the mandate if cost-sharing payments resumed. But later on Friday, Murkowski backed away from that. In a statement posted on Facebook she wrote that the passage of Alexander-Murray was not necessarily a precondition for her vote on the tax bill:

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[TomSea]

If the original healthcare proposal a few months ago funded planned parenthood, maybe Collins and Murkowski would have voted for it. It's a tough sale, a tough deal. Sometimes, compromises do have to be made... I'm the last one who'd ever want to fund PP; but it's a group of people deciding things, not one individual.  It has to be a team effort. It will be absolutely crazy if this tax bill does not go through.   

And McCain was a real jerk in voting against the skinny.