Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she is still unsure about the Senate Republicans’ tax reform proposal.
“You can’t vote for it as written?” George Stephanopoulos asked Collins, a known centrist and a key swing vote in the Senate, during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday morning.
“I haven’t reached that conclusion yet because I think there are going to be further changes,” Collins replied.
Collins said the “biggest mistake” was putting in a provision from Obamacare into the Senate bill that is not in the House bill.
“And I hope that will be dropped, or that bills that have been introduced […] will be adopted to mitigate the impact of those provisions,” she added.
Earlier this week, Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced legislation that would stabilize the individual healthcare insurance market after the Senate GOP tax bill went forward to include a repeal of the individual mandate.
In September, Collins broke with her party and opposed the so-called “skinny repeal,” sinking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Affordable Care Act repeal bill.
Some are worried the GOP tax bill’s Obamacare provision will sink the tax reform push.
