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Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), an architect of the 2017 tax bill, said “that’s not what we thought was going to happen at that time [of the 2017 tax bill vote]. We thought we would get rid of a mandate that a lot people didn’t like.”

Exactly.

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Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of GOP leadership, said that the mandate provision in the 2017 bill was “intended to give people more options and be able to work more vigorously to find what those options are, and by removing the penalty, you allow people to make more choices, . . .
... without being penalized for making those choices.”

Yup.

It's shameful and deeply cynical DOJ would write a brief asking a court to deny this obvious point, which *everyone* understands.
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