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Look at the yellow and orange boxes that's 2027. cuts for the lower income levels have nearly vanished and the top earners are still benefiting. why? republicans need to pay for tax cuts so they're frontloading some middle-class goodies like child tax credits that will expire in 2023 cutting into tax savings. reducing costs, that's important here because you have to pay for tax cuts. paying for tax cuts is one reason the senate version repealing the obamacare mandate. 13 million fewer will be insured, it saves the government $338 billion but also means you will see premiums rise 10% a year bec...

Now plague a sitting democrat in the senate and a maverick republican campaigning to join the club. >> but none of that is derailing gop efforts in congress to rework the tax code in time for the christmas holiday, which is where we start. so after passing a tax bill in the house this week, republicans in the senate are ready to vote on their bill after thanksgiving. while the bills do differ, they both dream up all kinds of accounting shenanigans to come under a $1.5 trillion price tag. that's important because that's the maximum amount a republican tax overhaul can add to the deficit over th...

Cbo, 13 million fewer people will be insure said over 10 years. it reduces the deficit by $338 billion. what do you see, david? >> well, i think this is a gamble on the part of republicans that they think is worth taking. because they can pick up conservative republican support. perhaps they may lose some. or the individual mandate, which is a problem. murkowski, collins and whatever happens in alabama if a democrat gets that seat in doug jones. but i think it is a gamble they are willing to take. it can take on the health care issue. it can create more room to get this under the water and inc...

With more. >> reporter: now, christine and dave, for weeks it's been on the table and for weeks republican leaders made it clear they don't want to actually put it in the tax reform bill and yet it's there, at least in the senate version. that's the repeal of the obamacare individual mandate, something that the con gregs gnat budget office would relouis those with health insurance by 13 million and introduces what's been a politically toxic health care debate back into play for senate republicans, one that led to so many legislative failures over the course of the last nine months. why are the...

General, jeff sessions, as a possib possible write-in replacement. we have it all covered. our coverage begins with suzanne malveaux live on capitol hill. >> reporter: this was a bombshell announcement. senate republicans saying they are trying to accomplish tax cuts as well as health care in the same bill. initially they resisted this and did not want to get into a toxic battle over health care again and thought it would redale the process and now desperate to get something done before christmas, they are taking their chances. senate republicans taking a gamble, proposing to repeal obamacare'...