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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2017
Tax bill clears Senate in big boost for Trump, GOP
By ALAN FRAM,
MARCY GORDON and
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Republicans
muscled the largest tax overhaul in 30
years through the U.S. Senate early
Saturday, taking a big step toward giv-
ing President Donald Trump his first
major legislative triumph after months
of false starts and frustration on other
fronts.
“Just what the country needs to
get growing again,” Senate Major-
ity Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,
said in an interview after a final burst
of negotiation closed in on a nearly
$1.5 trillion package that impacts the
breadth of American society.
He shrugged off polls finding scant
public enthusiasm for the measure,
saying the legislation would prove its
worth. “Big bills are rarely popular,”
he said. “You remember how unpopu-
lar ‘Obamacare’ was when it passed?”
Trump on Saturday tweeted his
thanks to Senate and House Republi-
cans as they now begin trying to rec-
oncile differences in legislation passed
by both chambers, a behind-closed-
doors process that is expected to move
swiftly. Trump is aiming to sign the
tax package into law before Christ-
mas. “Biggest Tax Bill and Tax Cuts in
history just passed in the Senate,” he
tweeted inaccurately. The overhaul is
significant but far from the largest.
Presiding over the Senate, Vice
President Mike Pence announced the
51-49 vote to applause from Republi-
cans. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., was
the only lawmaker to cross party lines,
joining the Democrats in opposition.
The measure focuses its tax reductions
on businesses and higher-earning indi-
viduals, gives more modest breaks to
others and offers the boldest rewrite of
the nation’s tax system since 1986.
Republicans said the package
would benefit people of all incomes
and ignite the economy. Even an offi-
cial projection of a $1 trillion, 10-year
flood of deeper budget deficits couldn’t
dissuade GOP senators from rallying
behind the bill.
“Obviously I’m kind of a dinosaur
on the fiscal issues,” said Corker, who
battled to keep the bill from worsen-
ing the government’s accumulated $20
trillion in IOUs.
The
Republican-led
House
approved a similar bill last month in
what has been a stunningly quick trip
through Congress for complex legis-
lation. Democrats derided the hastily
written, scribbles-in -the-margin craft-
ing of the bill in the final hours Friday
night.
After spending the year’s first nine
months futilely trying to repeal Presi-
dent Barack Obama’s health care law,
GOP leaders were determined to move
the measure rapidly before opposition
Democrats and lobbying groups could
blow it up. The party views passage as
crucial to retaining its House and Sen-
ate majorities in next year’s elections.
Democrats dismissed the bill as a
gift to its wealthy and business back-
ers at the expense of lower-earning
people. They played up the fact that
the bill would permanently reduce
corporate tax rates, from 35 percent to
20 percent, while offering only tem-
porary tax cuts to individuals, lasting
until 2026.
President Trump suggested Sat-
urday he may be willing to negoti-
ate changes to the corporate tax rate,
injecting an element of uncertainty
into the tax plan only hours after it
cleared the Senate.
Trump told reporters at the White
House that he would consider setting
the corporate tax rate at 22 percent,
compared to a 20 percent rate that he
has pushed for with House and Senate
Republicans during the fall.
Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Com-
mittee on Taxation has said the bill’s
reductions for many families would be
modest and by 2027, families earning
under $75,000 would on average face
higher, not lower, taxes.
The bill is “removed from the
reality of what the American people
need,” said Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. He criticized
Republicans for releasing a revised,
479-page bill that no one could absorb
shortly before the final vote, saying,
“The Senate is descending to a new
low of chicanery.”
“You really don’t read this kind
of legislation,” Sen. Ron Johnson,
R-Wis., told home-state reporters, say-
ing senators focus on the major provi-
sions as opposed to the “mind numb-
ing” comparisons to current law.
Democrats took to the Senate floor
and social media to mock one page
that included changes scrawled in
barely legible handwriting. Later, they
won enough GOP support to kill a pro-
vision by Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.,
that would have bestowed a tax break
on conservative Hillsdale College in
Michigan.
The bill hit rough waters after
the Joint Taxation panel concluded it
would worsen federal shortfalls by $1
trillion over a decade, even when fac-
toring in economic growth that lower
taxes would stimulate. Trump admin-
istration officials and many Republi-
cans have insisted the bill would pay
for itself by stimulating the economy.
But the sour projections stiffened
resistance from some deficit-averse
Republicans.
But after bargaining that stretched
into Friday, GOP leaders nailed down
the support they needed in a chamber
they control, 52-48. Facing unyielding
Democratic opposition, Republicans
could lose no more than two GOP sen-
ators and prevail with a tie-breaking
vote from Vice President Mike Pence,
but ended up not needing it.
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