Trump's Biggest Hurdle on Tax Cuts? Congress's Daunting Calendar
- Senate Republicans indicate they’ll take their time on health
- Lawmakers also have to agree on fiscal 2018 spending levels
Trump's Biggest Hurdle on Tax Cuts
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President Donald Trump faces many hurdles in delivering his promised tax cut, but none may be more formidable than the congressional calendar.
Republican leaders of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee have said the overhaul must be completed in 2017; election-year politics would only complicate the task next year. But the months ahead are full of time-consuming tasks that threaten to divert lawmakers’ attention, including hammering out health-care legislation in the Senate, funding the government again this fall and raising the debt limit.