What Collins wants is not in the new spending bill ..Talking Points Memo:
According to the article link below, what Collins wanted is not in this new spending bill. This is a temporary spending bill meant to keep the government open.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/republicans-race-again-to-avoid-a-government-shutdown
As the outline of that spending deal emerges, GOP lawmakers confirmed to TPM that it will include five years of funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which expired at the end of September, but will not include two policies to stabilize the health insurance market that Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) demanded in exchange for voting to repeal the individual mandate in the Republican tax bill.
Collins told TPM on Thursday that if the House sends over a funding bill without her two demands—one provision restoring the cost-sharing reduction payments to insurance companies that President Trump defunded earlier this year, and another creating a multi-billion dollar reinsurance program to stabilize the individual market—the Senate could simply vote to insert them and kick the bill back to the House.
Asked what she plans to do if the House strips them out, and whether she would vote for the tax bill without knowing the fate of the provisions, Collins appeared irritated.
“You know, I’m really tired of the cynicism of the press,” she told TPM with a tight smile. “Why don’t we wait and see what happens?”
The House’s influential far-right Freedom Caucus has all along been staunchly opposed to Collins’ proposals, deriding them as corporate welfare and a “bailout” for health insurance companies. Even without those proposals included, Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows (R-NC) told TPM he anticipates a “block of perhaps no’s” on the spending bill, but thinks it can still pass. Whether a deal that heavily favors military spending over all else can pass the upper chamber, however, is another story.__________________________________
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It looks like this is the temporary bill to keep the government going, NOT the TAX BILL. I was not sure in the original post, and I have changed it, as I reread it a few times.. sorry...to all who read it originally...
......I made a mistake........
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