Murkowski says she was stuck between bad options on budget plan vote

Murkowski says she was stuck between bad options on budget plan vote

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said President Donald Trump’s health care-cutting budget plan was destined to pass Congress, and her decisive vote on the package last month represented the best of a bad pair of options. In a new analysis published on July 21 by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law is estimated to add almost $3.4 trillion to the federal debt ove...