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Signals
In this Thursday, July 20, 2017, file photo, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney gestures as he speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington.
Mulvaney and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sent mixed signals Sunday, Nov. 19, on the fate of a health care provision in the Senate version of a $1.5 trillion
measure to overhaul business and personal income taxes that is expected to be voted on after Thanksgiving. “I don’t think anybody doubts where the White House
is on repealing and replacing Obamacare. We absolutely want to do it,” Mulvaney said.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Fate of Tax Bill’s Health Provision Remains Elusive
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE overhaul business and personal in- said that issue should be dealt with saying last week that it doesn’t cut
Associated Press come taxes that is expected to be separately from the push by Trump business taxes enough for partner-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of Presi- voted on after Thanksgiving. The and fellow Republicans to overhaul ships and corporations. GOP Sens.
dent Donald Trump’s leading eco- provision to repeal a requirement the tax code. Collins’ vote is cru- Bob Corker of Tennessee, John Mc-
nomic advisers sent mixed signals that everyone in the U.S. have in- cial in a chamber where Republi- Cain and Jeff Flake of Arizona, and
Sunday on the fate of a health surance has emerged as a major cans hold a slim 52-48 edge. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky also have
care provision in the Senate ver- sticking point for Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has already concerns about the bill.
sion of a $1.5 trillion measure to Susan Collins of Maine, who has declared his opposition to the bill, Continued on Page 2
TransCanada Sends More Crews to Keystone Pipeline Leak
AMHERST, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota from its Key- in Marshall County, near elaborate on the cause. ry Cunha said Sunday that
TransCanada Corp. says stone pipeline. the North Dakota border, The company says ad- about 150 people are now
the company has sent TransCanada said Satur- about 250 miles (402 kilo- ditional equipment and at the site. Cunha said
additional crews and day it is making progress meters) west of Minneap- workers continue to be dis- a gravel road has been
equipment to the site of in its investigation into the olis. patched to the site. completed to handle
a 210,000-gallon oil spill in spill cause on farmland But the company did not Company spokesman Ter- heavy equipment.q