Republicans are racing to avoid a shutdown on Friday at midnight.
Month: December 2017
WATCH: President Trump holds Cabinet meeting as House nears final vote on GOP tax bill
Trump comments on military, immigration, Obamacare, jobs and tax cuts.
Congress repealed the Obamacare individual mandate; now states are trying to repair the damage
With its passage of the Republican tax bill Wednesday, Congress has successfully repealed a critical component of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — but states could still safeguard current health law.
To offset a tax cut — which largely benefits wealthy individuals over the long term — Republican lawmakers repealed the individual mandate. The tax overhaul bill now goes to the president’s desk. Once the bill is signed into law, the mandate will be repealed in 20...
Congress repeals ObamaCare mandate, fulfilling longtime GOP goal
The repeal, which now heads to President Trump's desk, is the first major legislative victory for Republicans to strike down a provision of the law.
Trump: GOP tax bill ‘essentially’ repeals ObamaCare
President Trump on Wednesday claimed the Republican tax plan "essentially" repeals former President Obama's signature health-care law."When the individual mandate is being repealed, that means ObamaCare is being re...
Morial: GOP tax bill a “stink bomb” payoff to lobbyists
The highly unpopular GOP tax bill is on the verge of peaking. Hidden in the bill is gutting the Obamacare mandate which could result in 13 million fewer people having health care.
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Paul Ryan says ‘nobody knows’ if the tax bill will blow up the deficit. Economists beg to differ.
Though he never deserved the reputation, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is known as a deficit hawk. And yet the tax cut bill he helped shepherd through Congress is projected to add at least $1.414 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade.
During a Wednesday morning appearance on NBC’s Today, Ryan was asked how he, as someone who is supposedly concerned about the deficit, can support a bill that will blow it up.
“I remember you in 2012 doing ev...
Ryan: GOP learned from health-care failure in passing tax overhaul
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said in a new interview that House Republicans "learned lessons" from their failed attempts earlier this year to repeal and replace ObamaCare, applying those lessons to the GOP tax over haul pus...
Trump touts ‘biggest in history’ tax-cut bill after it passes in Senate
President Trump early Wednesday morning touted the passage of the GOP tax bill in the Senate, calling it the largest such bill "in history" and celebrating its repeal of the ObamaCare individual mandate."The United...