GOP Murkowski says she feels “ deceived ” by the administration after the passage of Megabill
At that time, eight years ago, when the Republicans were desperate to “repeal and replace” the affordable care law, the party attempted to win the Senator of Gop Lisa Murkowski, actually offering to protect its original state from Alaska from punishment that the party was impatient to impose on the rest of the country.
The sculptures and the proposed patterns were even given memorable nicknames, although not very flattering: “The purchase of Alaska”, the “Klondike Kickback” and my favorite, the “polar gain”.
In the end, this did not work, and the senator opposed his party’s gambit to empty the country’s health system. Eight years later, however, the leaders of the GOP once again proposed a set of withdrawals and regimes for the benefit of Alaska while trying to advance the far -right megabill of the party, and this time, Murkowski continued.
Three weeks later, the republican senator does not seem to be completely satisfied with the agreements she concluded. Anchorage Daily News reported:
Senator Lisa Murkowski said she felt “ deceived ‘after winning a concession in the tax on taxes and expenses recently adopted to protect wind and solar projects, to see the president and her administration to issue recent orders which, according to her, seem designed to quickly cancel such projects. “I feel wrong,” she said in an interview on Friday. “I have the impression that we have entered into an agreement and a few hours later, an agreement was concluded that someone else.
It is probably worth supporting for a minute to see how we arrived at this stage.
By the proper admission of Murkowski, the megabill of his group – Big Bill de Big Beautiful’s number was a mess. She told journalists that she did not do it as the bill; She considered him unfinished; She insisted that the bill was “not ready for the president’s office”; And she publicly said that the legislation was “not good enough” for the American public.
Murkowski then voted for this, hoping that the Republicans of the Chamber would bring the necessary changes. Shortly after, they said they wouldn’t even try to improve the package, which makes Alaska bet even worse.
Murkowski, however, did not move away empty -handed. As part of the offers of the back-shop, his country of origin won a series of special breaks that were unique in Alaska.
In addition, the senator thought She had also negotiated an agreement to protect a 12 -month window for solar and wind projects to continue to receive tax credits. As added to the Daily News report of anchorage, she quickly learned: otherwise:
[D]AYS After the dealership in Megabill, Trump published a decree that could lead to a rewriting of federal rules to limit the allocation of tax credits for certain solar and wind projects. … Then, the Interior Department published a directive forcing that the interior secretary Doug Burgum signs personally on routine activities, wind and solar projects on land and federal waters. Some fear that the move will slow down or stop development even for projects on private land that need access from federal areas.
The senator told her local newspaper that the White House policy “takes out the carpet under the agreement” that she had concluded.
It remains to be seen if Murkowski intends to do anything about this apparent betrayal. Look at this space.
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