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  1. Republicans Consider Cosmetic Slap at Millionaires in Their Tax-Cut PlanBut even if the top tax rate doesn’t fall, the wealthy will benefit from other parts of the bill.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. GOP Deficit Hawkery Dies in the Dark of NightHouse GOP ends its tough talk about spending and deficits in a rush to cut taxes.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. Senate Narrowly Approves Budget, an Ostensibly Easy Hurdle on Road to Tax CutsIt looks like they’ll avoid a conference committee, too, so now they can get started on the hard part of the tax-reform process.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  4. Trump Is Afraid His Tax Plan Is Doomed. He Should Be.The Senate’s margin for error is slim, the divisions among Republicans are massive, and the tax plan is half-baked — and wholly unpopular.
    By Eric Levitz
  5. Senate GOP Survives the First of Many Votes on the Road to Cutting TaxesThe hazier they keep their budget and tax plans, the farther down the road Republicans can maintain unity. But “enquiring minds” want to know more.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. Trump Keeps Getting Mad When He Finds Out What His Policies Actually DoAmerica’s first “low-information” president.
    By Eric Levitz
  7. House Budget Vote Necessary, But Not Enough, in the GOP’s Tax Cut PlansThe GOP dissenters in the House’s vote on a budget resolution setting up tax cuts indicate some potential problems ahead for the GOP.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. Why Trump’s Tax Plan Will (Probably) Be Impossible to PassThe plan’s upper middle-class tax increases are too high for many GOP lawmakers to tolerate – but still too low to satisfy the party’s deficit hawks.
    By Eric Levitz
  9. Right-to-Lifers Look for a New Hostage for Their DemandsThe anti-abortion lobby is rejecting suggestions to wait until next year to defund Planned Parenthood. They want to put it in the tax bill right now.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. GOP Tax ‘Simplification’ Initiative So, So ComplicatedYou’d think a nice, modest, balanced tax cut would be easy for a GOP Congress and White House to execute. But the GOP keeps complicating it all.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. Can the Senate Push Aside the Saturday Deadline for Graham-Cassidy?We’ve all assumed the GOP’s latest Obamacare repeal faces a hard deadline. Not so fast.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. Anti-Abortion Lobby Helping Push Quick Approval of Graham-CassidyThe powerful right-to-life movement is threatening to hold tax cuts hostage if GOP doesn’t pass Graham-Cassidy with abortion restrictions intact.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Could Trump Betray His Party on Taxes Next?“The rich will not be gaining at all with this plan,” says Trump. It’s possible he’s actually not lying this time.
    By Jonathan Chait
  14. Republicans Are Going to Take From the Poor to Give to the RichSpending cuts provide an alternative way to “pay for” GOP tax cuts. And it’s far more likely than attacks on sacred cows in the tax code.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. Trump Demands Congress Aid Storm Victims by Passing Tax Cuts for Rich PeopleNow that natural disasters have left thousands of Americans homeless, it’s never been more important to abolish the estate tax.
    By Eric Levitz
  16. House Conservatives Demand That Tax Reform Add to the DeficitThe House Freedom Caucus believes that the debt is a threat to our grandchildren — and in their upcoming tax plan, they insist on growing it.
    By Eric Levitz
  17. 7 Big Questions About What Congress Will Do in SeptemberThe big storm in Texas and Louisiana has improved the visibility in Washington — but there’s still a lot to do and little time to do it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. Joe Manchin Is More Popular Than Trump in West Virginia, Poll FindsTrump might need the votes of red-state Democrats to pass tax “reform” — but red-state Democrats look safe enough to toe their party’s line.
    By Eric Levitz
  19. Trump’s Tax Speech Empty of Tax Specifics, Budget ContextIt’s bad enough that the president’s “tax speech” had not a single specific proposal. He also didn’t mention how it would fit into the federal budget.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. Trump Tries to Make Tax Cuts for Rich People Sound PopulistTo get his tax “reform” plan through Congress, Trump will have to pull off his most challenging con yet.
    By Eric Levitz
  21. Gary Cohn: Only ‘Morons’ Pay the Estate TaxYour populist government at work.
    By Benjamin Hart
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    Trump Doesn’t Have Tax Plan, Does Have Plan to Lie About ItThey’re going to call it “unrigging the economy” and let donors figure out the details.
    By Jonathan Chait
  23. If Trump Keeps Threatening Government Shutdown, Democrats Will Have Some OptionsNow that the president has put a government shutdown squarely on the table, Democrats must decide if they want a deal, or just a Trump defeat.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. GOP Mulls ‘Just Lie’ Strategy for ‘Offsetting’ Tax CutsRepublicans are reportedly considering “offsetting” $450 billion worth of tax cuts through sheer budget gimmickry.
    By Eric Levitz
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    The Republican Dream of Partisan Tax Reform Is ImpossibleA bill can be tax reform, or it can pass exclusively with Republican votes. But it can’t be both.
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. Forget ‘Tax Reform.’ Republicans Will Settle for Tax Cuts for the Rich.For all the talk of “tax reform,” Republicans would prefer to offset tax cuts with spending cuts, and in the end won’t insist on offsets at all.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. GOP Struggles to Secure a ‘Clean’ Debt-Limit IncreaseIn theory everybody in Congress favors a straightforward debt-limit increase. But side deals and other complications loom large.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Mitch McConnell Tricked Into Admitting He Just Wants to Cut Taxes for the RichThe “tax reform” ruse has been blown.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. Sam Brownback Returns to His First Vocation: Warrior for the Christian RightAs Trump’s religious-freedom envoy, Brownback has a chance to leave the state he wrecked and to take his religious views worldwide.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    President Trump Promises to Raise Taxes on Rich, Is Lying“If there’s upward revision it’s going to be on high-income people,” says Trump. Yeah. that’s not what his plan does.
    By Jonathan Chait
  31. ‘Skinny Repeal’ Could Be Final Effort to Sell Trumpcare — Whatever Trumpcare IsThe GOP figures out new ways to delay making painful decisions about health-care policy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. Trumpcare’s ‘Orphans’ Must Search for New HomesSeveral provisions conservatives hitched to Obamacare repeal will need new legislative vehicles now that Trumpcare has crashed.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. House Budget Proposes Cuts to Medicare, Taxes on the RichThe House GOP wants the president to break his promise not to cut Medicare, for the sake of funding regressive tax cuts.
    By Eric Levitz
  34. No, Filibusters Aren’t Keeping 50 Republican Senators From Reaching AgreementSean Duffy (like Donald Trump) wants to blame the threat of filibusters for blocking GOP bills. But the big ones aren’t subject to filibusters.
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. After Trumpcare, Republicans Will Have to Tackle an Even Bigger MessYes, the health-care debacle has stalled budget and tax bills, but Republicans are nowhere close to agreement on the broad outlines of a fiscal plan.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. McConnell Scrubs Half the Senate’s August Recess As GOP Scrambles to Save AgendaWill the extra time enable Republicans to come up with a health-care bill 50 senators support? Or deals on taxes and the budget?
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. CBO: Medicaid Cuts Will Snowball Down the Road Under Senate Health-Care BillThe design of the Senate health-care bill is to slowly introduce Medicaid cuts that will grow much larger as time goes by.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. If Senate Health-Care Bill Changes a Lot, Will the House Still Rubber-Stamp It?The plan was to pass a Senate health-care bill so similar to the House bill that the GOP could avoid a House-Senate conference. That’s now in danger.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. GOP Senators Begin to Question Health-Care Bill’s Tax Cuts for the RichThe repeal of the taxes on the wealthy that were enacted with Obamacare is under attack by Senate Republicans. That is a bad sign for Mitch McConnell.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. Republicans May Have a Plan B If Their Health-Care Bill FailsThe Trumpcare bill is mostly composed of tax and Medicaid cuts. Why not shift these items into the next budget bill?
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. GOP To Follow Trumpcare With Bill That Cuts Medicaid to Slash Taxes On RichHouse leadership hopes to cut anti-poverty programs, Medicare, and Medicaid (again) in their 2018 budget.
    By Eric Levitz
  42. Why the GOP’s Senate Health-Care Bill Won’t Be Getting Much NicerWhile McConnell might make some accommodations to moderates, these key areas are non-negotiable.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    As Voodoo Economics Collapses in Kansas, Trump Takes It NationalTrump’s tax cuts are being designed by the conservatives whose ideas failed so badly in Kansas that even Republicans rejected them.
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. Democrats Toy With Some Debt Limit Hostage-Taking of Their OwnAfter years of supporting unconditional increases, they are now considering making the GOP abandon a budget-busting tax cut.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. Frustrated Trump Again Suggests Senate Get Rid of the Legislative Filibuster“Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’ in September to fix mess!”
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. Trumpcare Would Cost 23 Million Americans Their Health Coverage, Says CBOAnd that’s just part of the bad news the Congressional Budget Office delivered to Republicans about their health-care bill.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. A Debt-Limit Crisis Could Arrive Sooner Rather Than LaterHard-line conservatives in Congress who are angry about deficits may find a way to take a debt-limit increase hostage.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. The Trump Budget Is Really Just a Cynical PloyThe draconian spending cuts will never pass Congress. But Trump is preparing excuses in advance for when GOP tax cuts balloon the deficit.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. Markets Start to Wonder If the President Might Be an Incompetent LunaticWall Street was sure Trump would be a disaster, until he won. Now, its blind euphoria at the prospect of tax cuts is starting to fade.
    By Eric Levitz
  50. Chaos in Washington Dimming Prospects for GOP Tax CutsCongress was already running out of time to enact tax reform this year. Now all hell has broken loose, and Wall Street isn’t thrilled.
    By Ed Kilgore
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