Passing Alexander-Murray after repealing the individual mandate is like fixing one leg of a stool after you just finished sawing off one of the others. 2/
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Remember Alexander-Murray, the bipar health care bill? Senate Rs are planning to vote on that right after the #GOPTaxScam, to give themselves “cover” for repealing the individual mandate as part of the tax bill. 1/
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Repealing the individual mandate, which is in the
#GOPTaxScam so Rs can give BIGGER AND FASTER TAX CUTS TO CORPORATIONS, will raise premiums and undermine protections for ppl with pre-existing conditions. 3/Show this thread -
The House doesn’t necessarily want this, but no one in DC thinks they’ll actually do anything about it. Here’s McConnell’s devious plan to pass the
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The House and Senate will avoid “going to conference” (putting their different bills together) by working out what’s called a “pre-conference agreement.” 5/
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That pre-conference agreement will get dropped in by McConnell at the VERY LAST MINUTE during vote-a-rama in the Senate (expected the week of 11/27) as *an amendment* to the bill being “debated.” No one will have seen this final text before they have to vote on it. 6/
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First of all, that is light years from being “the regular order” CC
@SenJohnMcCain. But if they’re able to pass it, they’ll have already worked out that 218 House Rs will support it too. 7/Show this thread -
We can stop them. Call your Rep and your two Senators and tell them to oppose the tax bill. Then talk to your friends about it and have them call too. 8/
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This fight affects EVERYONE. This is a text I just got *while writing this thread* from a friend in grad school. YEAH DUDE, fire up those phones. 9/pic.twitter.com/6hcQ8zPO5X
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Rs are using a secret, sham, corrupt process to pass this bill to make their wealthy donors happy. They’ve told them to “stop calling” if they don’t. 10/
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If your allegiance is to democracy, and not a rushed, secret tax bill giving tax cuts to the rich and corporations by sabotaging the health care system, it’s time to LIGHT UP THE PHONES. 202-224-2131. http://trumptaxscam.org 11/pic.twitter.com/38EnVIFIQd
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(And if you like this tweet, there’s a lot more where that came from: https://twitter.com/chadderr/status/930490547785084928 …) 12/12
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