Steny Hoyer: GOP Tax Bill Is ‘Bad for The Country; It’s a Bad Bill’

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HOYER: “I’m hoping that it goes to conference, because if it goes to conference, it is not just blindly accepted by the House if, in fact, the Senate passes something. But if that happens, it will be bad for the country. It’s a bad bill. And what is happening is that senators are not deciding on policy, they’re deciding on politics. They’re deciding on the proposition that if they don't pass a bill, politically they will be badly damaged. But they have taken neither the time nor the care to review this bill. And as you just pointed out, it’s being changed as we speak so that when it comes to a vote, if it comes to a vote this week, senators are not going to have the faintest idea what the ramifications of this bill are and the harm that it’s going to cause to the American people and the millions of people who will lose health insurance as a result of some of the provisions, and the fact that some 82 million Americans will get a tax hike, not a tax cut, in this bill."