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Senate weighs scaling back tax package to win deficit hawks
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate
Republicans weighed scaling
back the tax cuts in their massive
package to secure crucial support
as congressional analysts said
Thursday the legislation would add
$1 trillion to the nation’s debt over
the next decade.
Republicans were making major
changes to the bill up to the last
minute, including one that would
roll back some of the tax cuts after
six years to appease deficit hawks.
The first revamp of the tax code
in three decades — a top political
priority of President Donald Trump
— would affect nearly every Amer-
ican and business.
The scramble to alter the bill
came after senators said the cham-
ber’s parliamentarian had ruled
that automatic “triggers” designed
to guard against big deficits would
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
violate Senate rules. GOP leaders’ With reporters looking for updates, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a member of the Senate Budget
main concern was winning over Committee, heads to the chamber to vote on amendments as the Republican leadership works to
lawmakers, including Sens. Bob craft their sweeping tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday.
Corker of Tennessee and Jeff Flake
of Arizona, concerned about adding to do” to deal with deficit concerns. measure as Corker, Flake and Ron meet expectations. Flake said the
Flake said the tax increases would Johnson of Wisconsin held out for tax increases would take affect after
more red ink to the deficit.
GOP leaders also were strug- raise about $350 billion over 10 just over an hour, repeatedly cajoled six years.
The overall legislation would
gling to placate Wisconsin Sen. Ron years, though he didn’t specify by their colleagues. They eventually
joined fellow Republicans to scuttle slash the corporate tax rate, offer
Johnson, who wanted an increase in which taxes would go up.
more modest cuts for families and
Forced to rewrite the bill behind the Democratic proposal.
the deduction for business income.
Corker has been pushing to add individuals and eliminate several
Senate Majority Leader Mitch closed doors, Republican hopes
McConnell, R-Ky., had expressed of passing the bill late Thursday automatic tax increases in future popular deductions.
years if the package doesn’t raise as
Lawmakers will then try to
confidence early in the day, but he slipped to Friday.
reconcile the Senate bill with one
In a dramatic turn, Democrats much revenue as projected.
has little margin for error with a
With the provision seemingly passed by the House in the hope
52-48 majority. He can afford to forced a vote on whether to return
the measure to the Senate Finance dead, Corker said senators would of delivering a major legislative
lose two votes.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Committee so it could be rewritten change the bill to roll back some accomplishment to Trump by
said the bill will have “alternative, to ensure smaller deficits. They of the tax cuts in future years, Christmas. Republicans have cast
frankly, tax increases we don’t want nearly prevailed in derailing the regardless of whether tax revenues passage of a tax overhaul as a polit-
ical imperative to ensure they hold
their House and Senate majorities
in next year’s midterm elections.
A new analysis by the nonpar-
tisan Joint Committee on Taxation
found that the bill would add $1
trillion to the deficit.
The tax bill would increase
economic growth, generating
an additional $458 billion in tax
revenue, according to the analysis.
That’s far short of the $2 trillion
promised by Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin.
Two Republican senators,
John McCain of Arizona and Lisa
Murkowski of Alaska, announced
their support for the tax package
Thursday, giving it a major boost.
Both McCain and Murkowski
had voted against the GOP bill to
dismantle the Obama health care
law this past summer.
Senators were still grappling
with several issues Thursday,
including a provision to add a
deduction for local property taxes.
The current Senate bill
completely eliminates the federal
deduction for state and local taxes,
a popular deduction in the Demo-
cratic-leaning states of New York,
New Jersey, California and Illinois
as well as many wealthy suburbs
nationwide.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine,
proposed an amendment to let
homeowners deduct up to $10,000
in local property taxes on their
federal returns. It is similar to a
provision in the House-passed bill.
Without the deduction, Collins
said, it would be “very problematic
for me” to vote for the bill.
BRIEFLY
American freedoms and his reasons
for opposing federal power.
“It’s about people, and life,
and trying to do the best we can to
promote and benefit the enjoyment
of life,” he said. “That’s all we’ve
tried to do.”
Bundy’s brief comments to
reporters quickly shifted to the
surprising order on Wednesday by
Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria
Navarro to release him, his father,
Cliven Bundy, and a co-defendant
from jail to house arrest with
friends during their ongoing trial on
charges in the armed standoff that
stopped a federal roundup of Bundy
cattle from public land.
Navarro didn’t specify why she
Oregon refuge standoff
figure free on house
arrest in Nevada
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A
rancher’s son at the center of an
armed standoff with government
agents near his family ranch in
Nevada in 2014 and a takeover of
an Oregon wildlife refuge in 2016
was released Thursday from federal
custody in Las Vegas.
Ammon Bundy, 42, was greeted
by his wife and six children while
friends cheered as he walked out of
the federal courthouse.
His first words after 22 months
behind bars were about family and
reversed previous detention rulings.
Her decision followed a four-hour,
closed hearing amid questions
from defense teams about whether
federal prosecutors have turned
over complete evidence records,
and about the conduct of FBI and
other government agents.
Trump weighs plan
to oust Tillerson, put
CIA’s boss at State
WASHINGTON (AP) — After
months of clashes on policy and
personality, President Donald
Trump is considering ousting
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and
replacing him with hard-nosed CIA
Director Mike Pompeo following
less than a year on the job, senior
U.S. officials said Thursday as
turmoil within Trump’s national
security team burst into the open.
The White House plan, which
Trump has not yet signed off on,
would force a major realignment
early in his term, also creating a
vacancy atop the CIA that officials
said could be filled by Republican
Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas. The
overhaul could produce a significant
shift in both the tone and direction
of the president’s foreign policy,
removing it from the understated
former oil man whose style has
never fit well with Trump’s.
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secretary of state, America’s face
on the global stage, to be fired or
to serve for a year or less. Nor is it
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a significant Cabinet revamp so
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