Posted on 04/12/2017 2:40:56 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan's tax reform blueprint appears to be losing its status as the likely framework for the first major tax overhaul since 1986, with rival approaches emerging from the White House, Senate and other quarters in Congress.
Congressional aides, lobbyists and analysts say the changing focus could delay passage of a tax bill until late 2017 or 2018, potentially foiling Republican efforts to score a legislative victory for President Donald Trump by August, following last month's failed bill to repeal and replace Obamacare health insurance.
Like the healthcare bill, the House Republican tax blueprint stems from Ryan's "A Better Way" legislative agenda launched during the 2016 election campaign.
"The House can go and do what they want to do. We are going to formulate our own policies," White House budget director Mick Mulvaney told CNBC in an interview posted on the channel's website on Wednesday. "You will have a White House, Donald Trump tax plan that we are going to take down to the Hill and try and sell.
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This isn’t the Ryan Presidency.
Ryan’s “A Better Way”, isn’t.
Reuters did such a great job predicting the Clinton Presidency.
More fake news so our fakey posters can predict the end of Trump again.
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If Trump doesn’t do ____________, he will be finished by _____________!
Ryan is a bum.
Lemme guess... the Ryan way was the lobbyists way
If true, I am good with this. Trump may well have learned from the health care fiasco not to let Ryan craft the plan. It failed miserably. Trump should have led the way on that and brought reps from the conservative caucus and the moderates to the White House to lay out the parameters. Instead they let the insurance companies dictate a rewrite favorable to them.
I don’t want any Ryan plans. Incompetent rino
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