Key GOP senator says support for AHCA is wavering, threatens passage of bill

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, a swing vote in a Republican Senate that only has a two vote majority, said that she doesn’t know if she will support the AHCA, according to The Hill.

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“I just truly do not know, because I don’t know where it’s going,” Ms. Murkowski said of the bill. She has previously expressed her support for a plan that would slowly phase out Medicaid expansion from 2020 to 2027, as opposed to the sudden cancellation of the expansion proposed in the House’s version of the AHCA.

Though GOP leadership has said its goal is to pass the bill before the July 4 recess, hesitation by key Republican senators to embrace the AHCA leaves its fate in question.

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