Republican senators seek to stop DC’s individual mandate

By Robert King

Published July 24, 2018 4:18pm ET

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Republican senators seek to stop DC’s individual mandate — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listens to an answer to his question of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and FBI Director Christopher Wray testify during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee to examine Horowitz's report of the FBI's Clinton email probe, on Capitol Hill, Monday, June 18, 2018 in Washington. | (Alex Brandon/AP)

A group of six GOP senators want to stop the District of Columbia’s effort to create their own individual mandate that every city resident get health insurance.

The senators introduced on Tuesday an amendment to an appropriations bill that would stop federal funds from re-implementing the mandate’s financial penalty. The tax reform law zeroed out the penalty starting in 2019.

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