18 GOP senators vote to raise taxes on the rich to pay for rural hospital fund

Eighteen Republican senators, including erstwhile Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), voted to beforehand an amendment sponsored by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to rise taxes connected ultra affluent income earners to assistance agrarian hospitals facing steep Medicaid cuts. The GOP senators voted for a question to waive a fund point-of-order against Collins’s amendment to establish…