Report: Sen. John McCain to miss vote on GOP tax bill

by Eleanor Mueller, Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sunday, December 17th 2017



Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., arrives for votes on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday evening, Nov. 27, 2017. President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are scrambling to change a Republican tax bill in an effort to win over holdout GOP senators and pass a tax package by the end of the year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON (SBG) — Sen. John McCain will be absent from the hill for the upcoming vote on his party's tax reform bill, CBS reported.

The Arizona Republican headed home Sunday to spend the holidays with family; and may not return to Washington at all, according to the report.

McCain, who was diagnosed with brain cancer earlier in the year, has spent the last several days recovering from the side effects of his treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland.

His missing the vote will make a razor-thin margin even narrower as Republicans rush to pass the tax reform measure ahead of the holidays.

Though his family has said publicly that the 81-year-old is "doing well," others report McCain's health is deteriorating rapidly.

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