House Conservatives Fear Health-Care Deja Vu on Secret Tax Plan
- ‘We don’t want to make the same mistake twice,’ lawmaker says
- House, Senate and White House officials keep tax talks private
McConnell Abandons Obamacare Replacement Bill
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House conservative leaders worry they’ll be forced to vote to advance a vehicle for a tax-code rewrite without knowing details of the plan, setting up a repeat of Congress’s troubled efforts on health-care legislation.
With a committee markup of a key budget resolution scheduled for Wednesday, leaders of the conservative House Freedom Caucus have demanded details about the tax package and about welfare-spending cuts that GOP leaders have agreed to in principle. But they’ve received no guarantees, and the prospects for seeing specifics ahead of a budget vote appear to be diminishing.