Igor Bobic is a senior HuffPost reporter who covers Congress, the White House, and political campaigns. He can be reached at [email protected] and is on Twitter @igorbobic.
Congressional Republicans were hoping to quickly approve Donald Trump ’s domestic policy agenda and confirm his Cabinet nominees within days of him taking office, helping to fulfill his many campaign promises and lay the foundation for an ambitious second term.
No Republican — including Trump himself — seems to want to make the call, leading to frustration from some GOP senators who believe the party is wasting time fussing.“I’m for accomplishing our goal and we’re not even working on it right now,” Sen. John Cornyn told HuffPost. “We’re just spinning our wheels.”
“Whether it’s one bill or two bills, it’s going to get done one way or the other,” Trump said Wednesday during a visit to the Capitol. “I think there’s a lot of talk about two and there’s a lot of talk about one, but it doesn’t matter. The end result is the same. We’re going to get something done that’s going to be reducing taxes and creating a lot of jobs and all of the other things.”
If the tax bill is combined with border security and energy deregulation, it could be harder for those pushing for a higher limit on the SALT cap to hold things up.Sen. Mike Crapo , the point man on taxes for Senate Republicans, told HuffPost he hasn’t taken sides on whether to lump taxes in with everything else. He said he understands arguments for each approach, including the idea of getting “wins on the table” with a border bill and addressing taxes later.
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