Posted on 11/30/2017 5:14:36 PM PST by Mariner
Senate Republicans have delayed voting on their tax bill as a setback forced them to patch up the plan only hours before a planned final vote.
Senators will rework the legislation Thursday night with the next in a series of roll call votes set for 11 a.m. on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said. Republicans previously hoped they could pass a plan by late Thursday or early Friday.
A hiccup earlier Thursday left the GOP scrambling to tweak its bill and win over skeptical senators. The delay does not necessarily mean Republicans will lack the votes to pass the legislation on Friday.
It does, however, add more uncertainty to Republicans' push to overhaul the American tax system by the end of the year.
The Senate parliamentarian ruled Thursday that a fiscal "trigger," important to winning deficit-wary Sen. Bob Corker's support for the GOP plan, will not work under Senate rules. Republican senators are now looking to find new ways to address the concerns of Corker, a so-called deficit hawk Republican from Tennessee.
"It doesn't look like the trigger is going to work, according to the parliamentarian," Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters, according to Politico. "So we have an alternative, frankly: a tax increase we don't want to do to try to address Sen. Corker's concerns."
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One more dingbat reveals he has no idea how tax cuts generate federal income.
Yea, they didn’t expect John McCain to vote for it.
Common Sense, Comprehensive Spending Control.....
Gee, why am I not surprised?
I’m asking for the person who added the keyword “Troll” to identify themselves.
Pinging all you folks to my #6 in this thread.
Am I the only one who wants to know who’s tagging these posts with derogatory terms?
Do you want them to identify themselves?
If they add in the “trigger”, then its really a bif effin tax increase within a year. CONgress has NEVER CUT SPENDING. the caps mean Im yelling, because I don’t like any of them. If they were on fire, and I had to piss, Id rather piss in my pants before putting one of them out.
I agree.
The trigger is out. Ow the plan is to cut the tax cut by 350B. And increase taxes on higher income folks.
Corker and Flake are trying to bust Trump’s 20% corp tax wish. I don’t think they expect to succeed.
Strange that the JCT, according to reports, has very low growth in their forecast.
Hahaha, Corker. Just lose his vote. Let the chap from OK vote against it too, kill his political career, you can get better in OK. Everyone is sooo concerned about the debt now, somehow 10 trillion under the last admin wasn’t an issue
I about three quarters expect to hear the following statement from McConnell.
“Well we would have liked to have voted, but this setback means it will be four years before we can try again.”
I just tried to add the keyword “Troll”, but it didn’t seem to take. Only the original keyword “troll” appears....
Where is the Common Sense, Comprehensive Spending Control?
That’s not an original keyword.
The poster did not add it.
Did you?
Corker is turning a tax cut into a bloated bill to raise taxes. Let them vote against it. Flake, Corker and the Like from OK. Let those 3 kill it. Just let it happen... sometimes you have to lose to win
I was original to me when I looked at the post. You asked about Troll, not troll....
Just trying to help.
It was original to me when I looked at the post. You asked about Troll, not troll....
Just trying to help.
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