Posted on 04/30/2019 10:42:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Monday he would not support a national gas tax increase unless President Donald Trump is willing to repeal some of his administration’s tax cuts.
Ahead of a meeting with Trump on Tuesday on a potential infrastructure deal, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Schumer wrote a letter to Trump, saying that an infrastructure deal must be “comprehensive and include clean energy and resiliency priorities.”
Schumer and Pelosi said that the deal must “go beyond transportation and into broadband, water, energy, schools, housing and other initiatives. We must also invest in resiliency and risk mitigation of our current infrastructure to deal with climate change.”
The Democrat leadership’s letter arises as Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Monday that President Trump continues to mull whether to back a federal gas tax increase to pay for an infrastructure package.
Schumer reportedly will not back a gas tax increase unless Trump can undo the cost through repealing some of the GOP tax cuts.
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That's a slush fund for vote buying, not an infrastructure bill.
Who didn’t know this was a stunt?
I hate those people.
They want to take back the crumbs.
Chuckie, buddy, you’re at the table with a pro. As that great philosopher Amarillo Slim once said, “Look around the table. If you don’t see a sucker, you’re it.”
Did he add an emphatic foot stomp at the end of his statement?
This is the shoe drop from the meeting at the White House ref infrastructure. That is what they wanted, a sound bite / election issue.
I have been known, from time to time, to not enunciate my words in a communicable fashion.
Yep. Like true Cons they will never give up on the Climate change scam either.
Which they?
Looks to me like a win-win for Trump as an election issue.
To Union guys: Your Rat pals won’t let you work unless we raise taxes!
To Everyone else & Union guys (They pay taxes too!): The Rats want to raise taxes!
What’s the definition of kabuki again?
I am contented to let the Dems block it.
I’m good with that...................
Bush didn’t get the boot for raising taxes, although that was a SMALL part of it.
Bush was primarily shown the door for not finishing Saddam off. Rightfully so.
Propose most of the infrastructure spending for dem territory. Let them AOC it!!
Schumer is like a case of VD that will just not go away.
Win-win. Most infrastructure spending disappears into a black hole, anyway.
Whoa!!! I thought I felt the earth shake. I was almost certain I saw the sun stop as well. Schmuckie is AGAINST a tax increase? Wow! I never thought I ever see the day that a demoncrap would be against a tax increase. Just incredible.
Fk U on Smuckie Saved me 3 K in taxes.
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