Economics

These Eight Senators Can Make or Break the GOP Tax Plan

  • Concerns center on partnerships, deficits and health care
  • Senate’s top tax writer foresees ‘tough, tough time’
Tax Policy Center's Rosenberg on U.S. Tax Bill
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to meet Tuesday with Senate Republicans in a crucial week for his presidency and his tax plan that could decide whether he ends his first year with a major legislative achievement.

Last-minute threats to the tax cuts that Trump has promised since early in his long-shot presidential campaign are looming among Senate Republicans. Concerns center on the taxation of partnerships, limited liabilities and other companies; on the overall cost of the tax bill itself; and on a familiar GOP stumbling block -- Obamacare.