How liberal activists believe they can kill the tax bill

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just so you know...and youse people won't be surprised.


Progressive Democratic activist groups have been strategizing their plan of attack on a Republican tax bill for months. Now, they’ve been given extra ammunition.

Competing demands have led Senate Republicans to include a provision that would repeal the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, which would save $300 billion over 10 years but also result in 13 million people losing their health insurance.

Messaging around the abstract, complicated details of tax reform has proved challenging. But with the health care fight suddenly back again, activists are hoping to replicate the success they achieved earlier this summer as they helped defeat repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

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The stakes are high — the tax bill is unpopular, and if progressive activists can put enough pressure on senators to kill this one too, then Republicans will start 2018 without a major piece of legislation passed despite controlling all branches of government.
 
The playbook activists are deploying is similar; with groups targeting key senators they hope to get to a no vote, including Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins, (R-ME) and John McCain (R-AZ). Activists were on the front lines during the Obamacare repeal effort, holding sit-ins in House and Senate offices on Capitol Hill and across the country, and jamming the phone lines, encouraging senators to vote no.