Donald Trump has reportedly been irritated that the failed attempt to repeal Obamacare was taking time away from his own pet issue: cutting taxes for the filthy rich. Team Trump says they have big plans for tax "reform.” They want it to be "their" issue.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said earlier this week that President Donald Trump is “driving the train” on tax reform, a move that goes against the grain of recent history.
Guess what? House Republicans aren't interested in Trump's plans. They've got their own plans, and in their minds Trump can sod off. Worse, House Republicans are worried that Team Trump piping up with their own, ahem, “ideas” will crater the whole effort.
They’ve been working on their own tax-reform proposal for more than a year and, after countless hours of work, don’t want to suddenly give up those designs just because the administration is now working on its own plan. Some worry the White House could drop a policy bomb in their midst just as reform seems within reach for the first time in decades.
They're not wrong to think so; Team Trump's policy chops have so far resulted in a "travel ban" that was a fiasco and healthcare "negotiations" in which nobody in the Republican Party could quite figure out which side the White House was on and who they were negotiating with. So House Republicans want Trump to scuttle whatever he imagines his own ideas to be, and just support whatever House Republicans want to do.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2otFBF8
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