There. Is. No. Bill.
Right now, Senate Republicans are planning to vote on their tax scam today. There’s only one problem: there. is. no. bill.
Vox highlights how Republicans “are overhauling the nation’s tax code on the fly” and don’t actually know what they are voting on today. Highlights here:
Vox highlights how Republicans “are overhauling the nation’s tax code on the fly” and don’t actually know what they are voting on today. Highlights here:
“Senate Republicans don’t have a tax bill yet. But they plan to pass one Friday.”
“The majority is short on votes — nearly suffering a humiliating loss on a procedural vote Thursday — and desperately rewriting its tax overhaul mere hours before they plan to put it on the Senate floor for passage.”
“What’s being discussed? You could ask a half-dozen senators and get a half-dozen answers. Senators learned Thursday that a ‘trigger’ proposal by Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) to have automatic tax hikes if the federal deficit increases too quickly would not fly under the Senate’s ‘budget reconciliation’ rules. That threw the whole plan into chaos.”
“Republicans are now scrambling for some way to reduce the bill’s $1 trillion price tag (even accounting for economic growth) and assuage deficit hawks like Corker and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) without losing any other senators. As they do, they will make decisions that would redirect hundreds of billions of dollars in the US economy over the next 10 years and then pass them hours later without any public hearing or expert input.”
“‘It’s not the most elegant process. I would say that,’ Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), another vote that could be in doubt, told Vox Thursday.”
“The majority is short on votes — nearly suffering a humiliating loss on a procedural vote Thursday — and desperately rewriting its tax overhaul mere hours before they plan to put it on the Senate floor for passage.”
“What’s being discussed? You could ask a half-dozen senators and get a half-dozen answers. Senators learned Thursday that a ‘trigger’ proposal by Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) to have automatic tax hikes if the federal deficit increases too quickly would not fly under the Senate’s ‘budget reconciliation’ rules. That threw the whole plan into chaos.”
“Republicans are now scrambling for some way to reduce the bill’s $1 trillion price tag (even accounting for economic growth) and assuage deficit hawks like Corker and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) without losing any other senators. As they do, they will make decisions that would redirect hundreds of billions of dollars in the US economy over the next 10 years and then pass them hours later without any public hearing or expert input.”
“‘It’s not the most elegant process. I would say that,’ Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), another vote that could be in doubt, told Vox Thursday.”