Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Republicans Hold Weak Hand for Tax-and-Spend Poker

Here are four ways to play the game. (They're all losers.)

April 9, 2017 at 2:00 PM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

The easy part.
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Stung by the collapse of the Republican plan to reshape the U.S. health-care system, President Donald Trump's White House says that it's taking charge of the next big GOP initiative: tax reform. What it wants and who will manage the effort isn't clear, but here are some legislative approaches the administration could pursue:

Each of these options has big downsides.