Sen. Tim Scott hears concerns on taxes, immigration from progressive South Carolina group
COLUMBIA — Leaders of a South Carolina progressive group met Wednesday with U.S. Sen. Tim Scott on Capitol Hill to voice their concerns over his conservative stances on taxes and immigration, as well as what they view as an insufficient number of town halls this year.
Julie Edwards and Kim Baker from the Midlands chapter of Indivisible, a grassroots organization of liberal activists across the country, chatted with the South Carolina Republican in a Senate hallway for about 10 minutes before sitting down with him again later in the day in his office for an additional conversation.
The pair also met with a health care staffer in Sen. Lindsey Graham's office, Nick Myers, to push back on the Seneca Republican's ongoing efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
Myers told them Graham has no intention of standing down from his proposal, which would give state governments money through a block grant program to manage their own health insurance marketplaces. The measure died before reaching the Senate floor last month, but Graham has vowed to bring it up again next year.
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