, Columnist
Five Questions for Republican Tax Reformers
The gist: Are you really prepared to challenge constituents or launch the deficit into the stratosphere?
It's complicated.
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This was the month that Republicans were going to sell voters on tax reform.
Instead, President Donald Trump took a "working vacation" at his New Jersey golf resort, threatening to obliterate North Korea. His tax-reform point men, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, were last spotted in Scotland and the Hamptons. Most congressional Republicans are spending their August recess trying to avoid voters still furious about their bungled health-care legislation.