Posted on 03/26/2017 1:11:20 PM PDT by Mariner
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.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said his committee had been working on tax reform in parallel with the failed healthcare reform push.
"We've never stopped working," Brady told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo." "We will continue to make improvements."
Brady said the committee plans to move on the bill in the spring. He said he wanted the House blueprint to be the basis for Trump's tax reform plan rather than have competing versions from Treasury and the White House.
Both Trump and Priebus have scolded hardline conservatives who rejected legislation backed by the White House to overhaul Obamacare.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Priebus held out the possibility of working with moderate Democrats as well as Republicans to pass other aspects of Trump's agenda, such as his proposed budget, the revamp of the tax code and a renewed effort at healthcare reform.
"If we can come up with a bill that accomplishes the goals of the president with Republicans alone, we'll take it and we'll move forward with it," Priebus said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
So what else is new with this President that has not been done by his predecessors?
Namely,
1. Reduce Taxes.
2. Increase Government Spending.
3. Print more funny money to pay for overspending and double the debt.
4. Make everybody happy by giving them what they want.
“This bill WAS NOT the best we can do.”
The bill was a shit sandwich, but the last one we’ll have a chance of passing.
The next healthcare bill we be single payer and it will pass both houses, to be signed by this president.
It all depends on whether the freedom caucus will again hold out for what they can’t get. If they do to tax reform what they did to healthcare reform, then Trump may as well approach the democrats. You are right, he is not now and has never been an ideological conservative, nor will he start now. Those who ever expected otherwise were fooling themselves. Badly.
“...Folks wake up.
This can’t make sense to you. It just can’t!”
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Hopefully, you’re right. I’m just having a BAD nightmare. When I wake, Trump will still recognize the Freedom Caucus as being on his side and will be awakening to the fact that Ryan is a duplicitous snake.
Please wake me up!
THE FAIR TAX=The best LONG-TERM SOLUTION to ongoing tax troubles, because it can’t be tampered with, ever! Any Flat Tax rates could be, eventually, changed, in the future, into higher and higher rates, towards the entire general public, until the rates are as bad as with the present tax system, and then become, eventually, even, worse, for the majority!
I believe a lot of us warned this was coming. I’m sure we’ll get true conservative legislation when the freedom caucus votes are replaced with democrats.
Trump campaigned on ‘Repeal and Replace’
The liberal House bill was shut down yet President Trump dissed the Freedom Caucus for standing true.
I’m at a loss
Is it too early to start calling him Donald Schwarzenegger?
Logical. Hardliners will complain but what else do you expect? He just just now to your will on everything? I hope some Democrats can be reasonable
Yeah let’s replace Trump! /s
The headline may be Fake News, but based on Trump's earlier tweets, some conservatives wonder if it isn't. And I don't blame them.
“He also believes strongly in the safety net and is very unlikely to reduce funding for those programs.”
I remember the first primary debate when all the other Reps were taking shots at him on healthcare, thinking that was his biggest weak spot. Trump answered them all with the same words...”I will not let people die in the streets”. Cruz especially, went after him hard on that answer, saying he wanted ObamaCare and socialized medicine; he just knew he had Trump dead to rights.
I also remember the day of the Indiana primary, just before he locked up the nomination, Cruz was still hammering Trump with the now very tired line about socialized medicine. He just knew he had him dead to rights:)
Trump has never changed his position on healthcare in this regard and he was honest about it, something that the wife and me (and I’m sure millions of other voters)appreciated.
The Freedom Caucus will drive Trump right into the arms of the moderate Democrats because that will be the only way he can keep his promise.
What should he do? Of pass anything because he can get all Republicans to agree on anything? He gave the FC a lot and they weren’t willing to give him a single vote. How is that reasonable?
Oh B. S.
Good grief folks, you’ve gone to the dark side.
Please, wake up!
No one has ever declared the President to be a classical conservative. Trump or Clinton, the choice was clear.
“Those who ever expected otherwise were fooling themselves. Badly.”
He is very conservative on national security matters, inclusive of illegals, jihadi migration, defense etc.
He is a social liberal on the bulk of the domestic agenda. The exceptions being tax policy and the size/scope of federal government.
I think it’s safe to label him a broad spectrum moderate and pragmatist.
Well of course Trump would like to peal off a few Dems to support his tax plan, which is cutting taxes and reducing government.
But we see Cong Brady doing it differently according to Reuters,
"Brady said the committee plans to move on the bill in the spring. He said he wanted the House blueprint to be the basis for Trump's tax reform plan rather than have competing versions from Treasury and the White House."
So what's is in Brady's tax plan? Appears to be not Trump's or is it? And this is Rooooters' headline which trigger's people.
Alberta I understand you point. Well taken. However,in my opinion, many of these FCers won’t support Trump with tax reform/ building the wall because they are beholden to the lobbyists/Koch brothers/CoC etc etc.
President Trump does not have much support except for those of us who voted for him.
“He does not care what Edmond Burke, Adam Smith or Milton Friedman have to say on any matter whatsoever. “
And neither does about 85% of the electorate.
You are correct, which does much to explain the morass we are in.
I have no idea what’s going to happen, but the past few days I’ve been reminded what Rush has said consistently regarding Trump: “The Media didn’t make Trump; therefore they can’t destroy him. The only ones who can destroy Trump is his base.”
Maybe there’s some grand strategy going on here that I’m not seeing, but as more and more days pass I’m just asking myself: “WTF is happening?”
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