Your Tax Cut Isn’t Likely to Be Made Permanent Any Time Soon
- Republicans have been calling for a ‘phase two’ of tax changes
- Tying vote to tax day seen as political move ahead of midterms
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House Republicans are approaching their next attempt at tax cuts the same way they did last year -- by excluding Democrats from the process. But this time a party-line vote won’t be enough, and that may be the point.
GOP leaders aren’t planning on using the procedural trick they deployed in 2017 that allowed them to bypass Democratic opposition and pass the tax overhaul bill with a simple majority. So they’ll need at least nine Senate Democrats to back a so-called phase two of tax changes that would focus on making the individual tax cuts permanent.