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House Republicans are objecting to Obamacare CSRs being included in the legislation, but the Obamacare payments were promised to Senator Susan Collins, so Republicans are caught in a no-win situation that could sink the bill.

Jake Sherman tweeted:

BIG PROBLEM BREWING — In House GOP meeting this morning, several members stood up and expressed opposition to restoring CSR payments in the year-end spending bill — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 19, 2017

House GOP leadership is aware of this dynamic, and several ppl I’ve spoken to hope that McConnell will punt this issue into next year. But he’s promised it to Collins. This is MORE than the Freedom Caucus. Rank and file Rs. — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 19, 2017

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If Republicans rebel and refuse to support the tax cuts due to the CSRs being included in the spending bill, it will sink the legislation, and if House Republicans remove them from the bill, it could set up failure in the Senate as several Republican Senators support the CSR payments.

All of the sudden, the tax cuts for the rich aren’t the done deal that Republicans thought they were. Stay tuned because this is a multipronged problem that won’t be solved by buying off or appeasing one side or the other.

It would be so 2017 Republicans for their own infighting to kill the tax cut bill right before Christmas.

Nothing is ever a given in Trump’s Republican Party. The one issue that everyone thought that they could agree on was tax cuts, but even that is on the verge of falling apart.