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Senate Republicans are struggling to get the Trump tax cuts invoice to the Senate flooring. Republicans had hoped to have a 4 PM vote (ET) on a movement to proceed, in order that debate might start on closing passage.
Whereas they’ve been negotiating, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced that except Republicans change the language about Medicaid cuts, he’s no vote on each the movement to proceed and closing passage.
Right here is the Tillis assertion:
Every little thing that Tillis stated in regards to the impression of the Senate Medicaid cuts was right. The cuts within the Senate invoice are worse than those within the Home model, however the Home invoice isn’t significantly better.
The massive image for Democrats is that except Senate Republican management makes main adjustments to the laws, Democrats will want simply two extra no votes within the Senate to kill closing passage of the invoice, as a result of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has already introduced that he’s a no vote.
There’s a group of Republican Senators who proceed to waver backwards and forwards on closing passage, which implies that none of this can be a executed deal.
If Senate Republicans refuse to vary the Medicaid language, there are a dozen average Home Republicans who’re keen to vote no on closing passage.
All of this appears shaky as a result of it’s.
Republicans might skate by and get this laws by Congress by the pores and skin of their enamel, however the political prices of getting saddled with such unpopular laws might price a lot of them their seats.
Democrats and the overwhelming majority of Individuals who need this invoice to fail are near victory.
Sen. Tillis might flip his vote to sure, if Senate Republicans weaken their cuts to Medicaid, however there isn’t any indication that may occur, so it seems like there stays an opportunity to place Trump’s Large Stunning Invoice into the trash bin of historical past.
