Activists, Dems Call On GOP To Pause Tax Vote With Mandate Repeal After Jones Win

By Amy Lotven / December 13, 2017 at 7:05 AM
Health care activists and Democrats are calling on the GOP Senate to hold off a vote on the tax bill, which is expected to include a repeal of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, until Alabama's Democratic Senator-elect Doug Jones is seated in the upper chamber. But a GOP consultant says the preliminary win by Jones that further narrows an already thin GOP majority, and which GOP opponent Roy Moore is challenging, just lit a fire under the GOP to...


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