Hunt Lawrence and Daniel J. Flynn
By the time Congress gets around to reforming health care, the private sector will have already done so. The pending acquisition of Aetna by CVS Health indicates as much. This purchase follows Amazon’s forays, both sub rosa and in plain…
AT&T reached out and touched someone — more than 200,000 someones. “Once tax reform is signed into law, AT&T plans to invest an additional $1 billion in the United States in 2018 and pay a special $1,000 bonus to more than…
The Trump-back tax bill nears the finish line bruised, bloodied but better than what it replaces. The House has just voted on the legislation, passing it 227-203. In the Senate, where the Republican margin for error appears razor thin, the…
Republicans on Capitol Hill affirmed on Wednesday reaching an agreement reconciling the Senate and House versions of the tax bill. This accomplishment perhaps eclipses the actual passage in both houses of the bill(s?), which reads as two distinct pieces of…
The Democrats’ opposition to President Donald Trump’s tax plan finds unusual allies — abroad. The finance ministers of Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Great Britain have voiced their objections to the Trump tax plan in a letter to the U.S. secretary…
The Republican tax plan that won a majority of votes in the House and the Senate fails to win anything close to half of the public. Gallup found support from just 29 percent of Americans with opposition from 55 percent….
Nancy Pelosi characterized the Trump tax legislation earlier this week as “one of the worst bills in the history of the United States of America.” The Cut, Cut, Cut Act, as Trump wished to call the legislation, may rank as…
“Now comes the moment of truth,” President Donald Trump told a Missouri audience on Wednesday. By a partisan 52-48 split, the United States Senate voted on Wednesday to allow debate on tax reform. This came in spite of a strange…
The Senate Budget Committee gave its imprimatur Tuesday to the Trump tax plan on a 12-11 party-line vote. More so than that win, winning over Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) represented the day’s big triumph. Trump predicted…
“We’re going to give the American people a huge tax cut for Christmas,” President Donald Trump explained in a cabinet meeting earlier this week. “Hopefully, that will be a great, big, beautiful Christmas present.” Five Republican grinches — Senators Jeff…
