“Fresh off a defeat on U.S. healthcare legislation, the White House warned rebellious conservative lawmakers that they should get behind President Donald Trump's agenda or he may bypass them on future legislative fights, including tax reform.
The threat by White House chief of staff Reince Priebus to build a broad coalition on tax reform that could include moderate Democrats came as the Republican head of the tax-writing committee in the House of Representatives said he hoped to move a tax bill through his panel this spring.
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In an embarrassment for Trump, who had campaigned for the White House on what he said were his skills as a dealmaker, the healthcare bill was pulled on Friday from the floor of the House of Representatives because it failed to draw enough support from within Trump's own Republican Party.”
White House threatens to bypass hardline conservatives on tax reform
But Trump was supposed to be the ‘outsider’ president, decrease the size of government, raze the Federal edifice, and vanquish the Washington ‘establishment.’
Instead Trump is just another insider, establishment politician at odds with conservative extremists and willing to work with Democrats.
The threat by White House chief of staff Reince Priebus to build a broad coalition on tax reform that could include moderate Democrats came as the Republican head of the tax-writing committee in the House of Representatives said he hoped to move a tax bill through his panel this spring.
[…]
In an embarrassment for Trump, who had campaigned for the White House on what he said were his skills as a dealmaker, the healthcare bill was pulled on Friday from the floor of the House of Representatives because it failed to draw enough support from within Trump's own Republican Party.”
White House threatens to bypass hardline conservatives on tax reform
But Trump was supposed to be the ‘outsider’ president, decrease the size of government, raze the Federal edifice, and vanquish the Washington ‘establishment.’
Instead Trump is just another insider, establishment politician at odds with conservative extremists and willing to work with Democrats.