Senator’s Shaky Obamacare Deal Poses Challenge for Tax Plan
- Collins says she’s ‘confident,’ others say ‘she got rolled’
- GOP’s three key issues center on Maine’s moderate Republican
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The three biggest stories in Washington -- a broad overhaul of the U.S. tax structure, a health-care makeover and a spending bill that would avert a government shutdown -- all depend, more or less, on one moderate Republican senator who says she’s got a deal that could deliver them all.
The only trouble is, Senator Susan Collins’s deal could unravel fast, putting the Maine lawmaker and her party in a tight spot as GOP leaders seek a major policy win in 2017.