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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 12:47 PM Nov 2017

Mulvaney: WH Okay With Taking OCare Mandate Repeal Out Of GOP's Tax Bill

Source: Talking Points Memo




By ESME CRIBB Published NOVEMBER 19, 2017 11:14 AM

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Sunday said the White House is all right with taking a provision to repeal Obamacare’s individual mandate out of Senate Republicans’ tax bill if the provision is “an impediment” to its passage.

“If we can repeal part of Obamacare as part of a tax bill, and have a tax bill that is still a good tax bill that can pass, that’s great,” Mulvaney said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Mulvaney said that if the provision “becomes an impediment to getting the best tax bill we can, then we’re okay with taking it out.”

“So I think it’s up to the Senate and the House to sort of hammer out those details,” he said.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mulvaney-white-house-okay-with-taking-obamacare-mandate-repeal-out-of-tax-bill

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Mulvaney: WH Okay With Taking OCare Mandate Repeal Out Of GOP's Tax Bill (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2017 OP
Can't happen PSPS Nov 2017 #1
Ahhh.... SergeStorms Nov 2017 #10
How effin' generous! Trump has already no_hypocrisy Nov 2017 #2
If the moron could get the Tax Scam through BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #9
now that's leadership! unblock Nov 2017 #3
The only thing that matters to Trump and co are tax cuts for them n2doc Nov 2017 #4
Actively trying to kill as many of us as they can. Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #5
If they die, it's a feature, not a bug... lastlib Nov 2017 #7
Of course they are, and they will get it to pass with that taken out also still_one Nov 2017 #6
Typical Repug bait and switch. KY_EnviroGuy Nov 2017 #8
The overlords said I want my tax cut...drop the Obama thingy... pbmus Nov 2017 #11

PSPS

(13,572 posts)
1. Can't happen
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 12:53 PM
Nov 2017

They're counting on the 'savings' from the mandate repeal to offset the looting of the treasury to the rich, thus keeping the additional deficit below the threshold where they can jam it through on 50 votes.

no_hypocrisy

(45,998 posts)
2. How effin' generous! Trump has already
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 12:54 PM
Nov 2017

issued an Executive Order that repeals the Individual Mandate, effective until a future president repeals this EO. The offer to remove the Individual Mandate is an empty gesture.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,488 posts)
8. Typical Repug bait and switch.
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 01:24 PM
Nov 2017

They intentionally load these bills with sacrificial stuff so that after some of those items are dropped, they can act like they have compromised. I'm not buying it.

Repugs - stop putting chocolate icing on that cow pie! ......

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