Republicans Don’t Agree on Tax Cut Strategy

Punchbowl News: “If you need further evidence that it won’t be easy to extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts, here you go.”

“During a private lunch today on the first floor of the Capitol, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) again criticized incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s plan to pass an extension of the Trump tax cuts only after clearing a number of the president-elect’s other legislative priorities, including new funding for border security and energy policy…”

“Smith said if Republicans don’t work on one single package that includes all of their policies, taxes will increase or the GOP will have to work with Democrats which is ‘not what anyone wants.'”