“That’s life here,” Crapo responded, according to Risch. Risch declined to reveal his biggest concerns about the bill.
“I don’t want to go there,” he said. “Ask me after it’s over.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who can lose only two of his 52 members before the effort crashes, said this week that corralling them is a “challenge.”
“Think of sitting there with a Rubik’s cube, trying to get to 50,” he told reporters.
Kennedy said the GOP’s internal debate on taxes will be a dramatic change from the health-care deliberations that ended in September as the party failed to deliver on a seven-year promise of repealing Obamacare. He insisted that nobody should let the “perfect be the enemy of the good” in pursuit of reaching a solution.
“I’m not so arrogant that I think that I have all the answers,” the first-term Louisiana senator said.
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