Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who voted against the Senate’s previous effort to repeal Obamacare, on Sunday said she has not yet decided whether she will vote against a tax bill that includes a provision repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate.
“I haven’t reached that conclusion yet, because I think there are going to be future changes,” Collins said on ABC News’ “This Week.”
She said “the biggest mistake was putting a provision from the Affordable Care Act into the Senate bill.”
“That’s not in the House bill,” Collins said. “And I hope that will be dropped.”
.@GStephanopoulos: You can't vote for GOP tax bill as written?@SenatorCollins: "I haven't reached that conclusion yet." #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/GsDJ5fHKb0
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 19, 2017
Sure sounds like she’s asking McConnell to buy her off with something.
“But I will with a promised $1.5 trillion hole in the deficit and immediate cuts to Medicare. Plus grad students can go f*ck themselves. I’ll vote for that,” the overrated senator from Maine later added.
she needs to go independent.
While the ACA individual mandate provision repeal is an abomination, this so called tax cut bill has huge problems beyond that. Such as punishing students and middle class folk, people who live in blue states, etc., just to throw more money at billionaires and corporations who already have more than they know what to do with.
This bill will not raise GDP nor generate job growth. I would hope Senator Collins would reject it on that basis as well.
I sure hope wherever you are hoping Mitch will give you for selling out your country is worth it.
Hint: it won’t be.