Salt Lake Tribune · Nov 4, 2017
GOP considers using tax bill to repeal ACA tenet
Washington • House Republicans grappled Friday with the difficulty of turning their new tax plan into law, making a change that would make the proposal's tax cuts for individuals less generous and entertaining a controversial proposal from President Donald Trump to use the tax bill to repeal a central element of the Affordable Care Act.
Republicans changed the tax overhaul, which was announced Thursday, to cut $81 billion from the tax breaks it would provide to individual taxpayers. The move was made as lawmakers realized their initial effort would run up against the $1.5 trillion in total borrowing over a decade that Congress had authorized to finance the tax cut plan.