The Senate Tax Bill’s Chances Just Got Better

Murkowski agrees to kill Obamacare’s individual mandate
Hurdles remain, including concerns about deficit effects

Bloomberg’s Anna Edgerton reports on Sen. Murkowski’s pivot on the Obamacare individual mandate repeal effort.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Steven T. Dennis and Sahil Kapur

November 22, 2017 at 1:47 PM UTC

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November 22, 2017 at 4:03 PM UTC

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Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski’s decision to agree to smash Obamacare’s individual mandate may remove one obstacle to passing the Senate Republican tax bill next week.

“I believe that the federal government should not force anyone to buy something they do not wish to buy in order to avoid being taxed,” she wrote in an op-ed in Alaska’s Daily News-Miner newspaper posted online Tuesday.